Shucks, this will probably turn into a bunch of dumb questions...
I was successful downloading
ftp://ftp.bixby.org/pub/mpe/diffutils-2.7-mpe.tar.Z
via ftp directly to my HP3k, but am having NO luck trying to figure out how
to run tar, or even the version present; I have
ACCOUNT= SYS GROUP= HPBIN
FILENAME CODE ------------LOGICAL RECORD----------- ----SPACE----
SIZE TYP EOF LIMIT R/B SECTORS #X MX
TAR NMPRG 128W FB 964 964 1 976 1 8
I searched the hp3000-l archives and tried a few suggestions for finding man
tar, but no luck. I might even be invoking the wrong shell?
I tried
sh.hpbin.sys
$ man /etc tar
and several other variants; of course I also tried
$ tar.hpbin.sys -h
and
... -?
Gee, not a clue. Do I have to go through the pain of learning Posix to use
diff, et al?
TIA
Tracy "I want my MPE" Pierce