Source for 'Grab'
Donn Seeley
donn at sdchema.UUCP
Wed Aug 10 13:00:07 AEST 1983
The source and documentation for 'grab' are being posted to
net.sources. They appear in a file which is ~2700 lines and ~60000
bytes long and is in the form of a C-shell script that will write the
individual pieces into separate files when run. 'Grab' is a program
that reads filesystems through Unix 'character devices' and runs on 4.1
BSD, 2.8 BSD and Version 6 Unix. It runs fast and makes a good
directory tree copying program as well as allowing one to read foreign
format filesystems.
If you are on the ARPAnet and want to get the sources, try to find a
ARPAnet site on Usenet that will let you FTP the file. There has been a
crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to
attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites. I have stopped listing this
gateway in my news signatures; I have listed another gateway but I am
not at all sure that it works. Such is the price of security...
If you are on Usenet and don't receive this file, check your netnews
neighbors for it; sometimes large files disappear mysteriously through
the vagaries of UUCP. If this fails, I am willing to mail the file.
(In the past I have found that net.sources is not terrifically
reliable, but for this many requests I consider it to be a much better
distribution medium than mail. Even so, if experience is any guide I
will still be doing a lot of mailing... sigh.)
Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn
(619) 452-4016 sdcsvax!sdchema!donn at noscvax
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