On Jun 6,  5:31pm, Jeff Woods wrote:
> Subject: Re: Mover files on Jazz
> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 15:00:45 -0700, Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> |Too many darn incompatible versions of mover!  :-(
>
> And with the same version number in the banner, no less!  :(  This is a very
> unfortunate state of affairs, especially since so many very helpful and even
> downright necessary (as in MPE patches) tools depending on it.  Perhaps the
> best solution would be to leave behind this particular tool (and the
> confusion it continues to generate) and move to some other tool that does
> the same job but with less confusion and better technical features too.

...good comments snipped...

I have proposed, on the Jazz sources/binaries page, and now here that we
abondon using mover starting with release 6.0 and use tar instead.

tar is on all 5.5 and later systems.  tar preserves all MPE file attributes,
and this is the main purpose of mover.  tar also works nicely with directories
and recreates directories as needed on extracts. tar does not do compression
so we can use the file suffix to know what type of compression, if any,
was done.  .Z, .gz, etc.  compress is a standard unix compression utility,
producing the .Z suffix, and is on all MPE systems starting with 5.0

How does this sound.?  IMO, we can start using tar now as long as we
have a mover flavor of the same archive for our users still on 5.0
(5.0 tar does not preserve MPE file attributes)

Jeff Vance, CSY

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