Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    There was a tar utility posted to comp.binaries.amiga at least a couple
    of years ago.  Try looking in the amiga_binaries for it.  If you can't
    find it drop me a note and I'll upload it for you.
    
    -pete
    

>I've finally downloaded the MIT X11R3 core tape (all night at 19200!) to 
>my Amiga (~30MB - 55000+ blocks!) and would like to do a "tar tf core.tar"
>before unpacking the whole thing...

30 mb!?!?!  WAITAMINUTE!  The source code you pointed me to originally was only
about 6 mb.  What in the world does the X11R3 kit include that's 30mb worth?

Oh well, If I send you LOTS of blank disks, money for postage, a couple of
Beautiful Florida Beach Bunnies, and any other suitable bribes you can think
of, would you consider dumping some of that kit to floppies and sending it to
me?  Or will the files be on the net somewhere so I can download parts now and
then?  A full X11R3 implementation would be a monumental task, but I'd at least
like to try and put together a SERVER.  


					John

BTW, you'll have to reply to me via notes or a phone call.  The decnet 
account on my machine is screwed up and no mail has reached me for about 
a week. 

> 30 mb!?!?!  WAITAMINUTE!  The source code you pointed me to originally was only
> about 6 mb.  What in the world does the X11R3 kit include that's 30mb worth?

The original stuff I got off DECWRL I had copied by hand and missed all kinds
of stuff. Some kind sole pointed me to a bunch of core_xx.tar_Z files (20 or 30)
which I copied over. I then spent the next couple days finding out how to
un compress and untar them (The whole untared source kit is on WJG:: as well
as the core.tar file and on SPRINT:: is fixcore.tar which has all 10 fixes
from MIT applied. This file is the ~30MB one which I transfered via FTP
from ULTRIX VSII to AMIGA at 19200).

So now I'm trying to untar this sucker on Amy. tarsplit bombed on "unknown
link flag" or some such error. Pete Pernod is uploading another Amiga tar
utility so we'llsee if that works. Otherwise I'm gonna have to hack the
tarsplit source to work (and oh by the way, figure our tar format along the way!)
Bummer! (Dale Luck, did you have this much fun!?!?!)

Let me get it unpacked and see. I imagine ZOOing it would shrink it
a bit (all the tar is (looks like) is ASCII and all C source) but since it's
all ASCII, probably not much.  You could always get it off WJG::X11R3:
for the core  tar files or WJG::X11R3R:[SRC...] for the unpacked source or
SPRINT::"/usr/users/wjg/fixcore.tar" for the fixed core version.

BTW - You still up for helpiong me port this thing?

John

    
    
    	I have a copy of TAR for the AMIGA and a document that describes
    what TAR format is. You can wait till the weekend for an upload
    or I can bring a disk into work ( NKS 500 ).
    
    
    		Steve Peters
    

>BTW - You still up for helpiong me port this thing?

Yep.  I've been fiddling around with some of the Amiga Graphics routines to
sort of try and get a handle on what's there.  BTW, I'm almost finished getting
X-type scroll gadgets... had to make three gadgets, one proportional, one
boolean up-arrow, and one boolean down-arrow.  Still, if it works, don't knock
it, right?

I think we should maybe concentrate on putting together an X server first.  It
should be a lot easier than a full X11 implementation.  I'm certainly up to
help.  How's about you play the role of project leader and I pretend to be a
Software Engineer again.  That way we'll be working together instead of
duplicating work. 

I can download whatever files you think I need as you think I need them.  I
like that better than the thought of downloading 30 meg at 2400 baud.  I
realize this puts most of the burden of figuring out what needs to be done on
you, but I can't think of any other way to do this productively.

Let me know what you think about this.  BTW, my node's network access is fixed
now, so we can communicate via E-mail again.  

This is great!  I'm looking forward to doing some engineering again.


				John

When you upload tar, please post the location.  I've been looking for it!

WJG::TAR.ZOO

John