On Aug 12,  9:28am, Mark Bixby wrote:
> Subject: Re: Archiving and Compressing on the HP 3000
> Michael D. Hensley writes:
> > POSIX tar & compress
> >    Bundled with POSIX on MPE/iX 5.0 and later.
> >    Files can be exchanged with MPE, Unix, and PC's (on the PC, I use "Drag
> >N Zip" to read/write tar files).
> >    Does NOT preserve MPE file attributes.
>
> Does too preserve MPE file attributes!  From my 5.5 system:
...
> The default behavior is to preserve the MPE attributes.  Note that this
option
> isn't mentioned on the man page or in the paper manual.

You are both partially correct.  tar on 5.0 does not preserve any MPE file
attributes, like record size, filecode etc.  tar on 5.5 and later preserves
all MPE NM file attributes, but it does not (akaik) preserve CM file
properties.

Jeff

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