I do not know how many others are in this case, but I must use either floppies or tapes to transport the Samba product after I download it. Floppies are more convenient than tape because the tape medium is TK50 on OpenVMS and it is very slow. Is is possible to produce the production release in a two archive set so that it can be more easily sneaker-netted? Thank you, John Malmberg
In a message dated: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 08:58:37 +1100 JOHN MALMBERG said:>I do not know how many others are in this case, but I must use either floppies >or tapes to transport the Samba product after I download it.I would guess very few :)>Floppies are more convenient than tape because the tape medium is TK50 on >OpenVMS and it is very slow. > >Is is possible to produce the production release in a two archive set so that >it can be more easily sneaker-netted?I'm assuming you're ftp'ing it to a Unix machine. Why not untar it to the system you're ftp'ing it to, then use tar to tar it up across multiple floppies? Get GNU tar for both the Unix system and the OpenVMS system and your problem is solved. -- Seeya, Paul ---- plussier@baynetworks.com Broadband Technology Division - Bay Networks (now a Nortel Company, Eh? :) If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Paul <plussier@baynetworks.com > wrote:>I'm assuming you're ftp'ing it to a Unix machine. Why not untar it >to the system you're ftp'ing it toActually my choices are either a AlphaStation running OpenVMS 7.1 or a Windows NT 4.0 system for the download. On the target system, the choices are floppies to a Windows 95 system, and then use SMBD (Currently 1.19 pre-alpha) to put the file on the OpenVMS 5.5-2 with CMU-IP stack. Or TK50 directly. If I have to unpack after the download, it is usually faster to put the unpacked files on the slow tape, then to repack and feed the floppies. I do not have the ability to re-tar or re-zip on the windoze box yet. -John