Re: How to distribute Unix Code?

> Subject: How to distribute Unix Code? > Date: Thu, 2 Jun 1994 12:06:56 GMT > Reply-To: Joe Lumbley <jlumbley@netcom.netcom.com> > > This is not specifically an Informix question, but I respect all your > experience and would like your help with this. > > My Informix book will have a companion disk of shell scripts for DBA > tasks. My editor wants to put it on a Unix-formatted tar 3.5" diskette. > I want to put it on a 3.5" DOS diskette, in both tar and sharfile formats. > > Can you all read Unix tar floppies? Do you even have floppy drives? (My HP's > don't). Can you access them? Are the floppy formats for Unix identical? > > > My thoughts are that EVERYONE has access to an MSDOS machine and either > a modem or ftp and that this is the easiest way to assure that everyone > can read the code. I would go for the DOS diskette. Many systems can read them directly, and, like you mentioned, many more have some kind of connectivity to a DOS PC. Two problems to note. One, if they transfer up the .tar, you must remind them to use the BINARY transfer, and two, if they transfer up the sharfile, they must remember to remove the ^M's from the file. Is there any reason why you won't have enought room for both a .tar, a sharfile, and the seperate files them selves? (I can't imagine 1 meg of shell scripts...) And, of course, the third option is to give them to Walt and have him put them on his FTP server. Will (villy@collinscomp.com)