Re: [MiNT] Mint/Mintnet

[Jim DeClercq <jimd@panix.com>]

For MiNT, I have an external hard drive, so if some program gets
stuck (halt does not work under 1.15.12) I can switch off the
power, and crash the machine. Two zip drives, one with an EXT2
format on it, and one tape drive, driven by Gemar 3.06, a fine
program, which makes tar-compatible tapes. Long names no problem.
File structure no problem.

It can also do compression, if that is what you want.

And, if all goes wrong, the other zip drive has the files which
built the MiNT partition.

Jim

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Martin Tarenskeen wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 05:33:45PM +0200, Edward S. Baiz Jr wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:17:57 , Martin Tarenskeen <m.tarenskeen@zonnet.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Not a bad idea. Does Tar also take care of all of the special links here and
> > there (ie X.App)
>
> Yes. Location, links, attributes, rights, case-sensitive long filenames,
> etc. Everything can be preserved in a tar archive. That's why easymint
> uses tar archives. That's why zip and lzh are less suitable for this
> purpose.
>
> If you want smaller archives, use gzip to compress the tar file to a
> .tar.gz or .tgz file. In that case unpacking will take a little more time.
>
>
> Martin Tarenskeen
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