> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henry House) > I usually ask people to send tarballs instead of zipfiles. Can popular > DOS compression programs create tarballs?
Hello there, Henry and all. While I'm not sure if this counts as a popular DOS tool, DJGPP (a DOS port by DJ Delorie and other contributors of GNU to a 32-bit environment using DPMI) includes a version of GNU tar which I've used. If it might help, I'd be glad to try sending a test e-mail with an attached tarball produced by this program. (This would be via a DOS ppp connection then using telnet to my Unix shell account.) In response to Jeff Newmiller's post in a digest which just came in as I was preparing to post this, I might add that DJGPP does include the utilities dtou and utod for DOS-Unix and Unix-DOS conversions, and that learning the tar directory conventions should help me in dealing with both types of operating systems. Thank you, Jeff, for a post which alerts me to these important conventions. As someone involved with both types of OSes, I'd be glad to take part in a test that might address not only the technical problems of the tar attachment but a bit of user education (namely mine) in the proper conversions and directory conventions. Most appreciatively, Margo Schulter [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
