Subject: Re: tar files and such things...
To: Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk>
From: Greg Evans <mr_krak@televar.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/19/1998 19:11:20
>On Mon, 19 Jan 1998, Greg Evans wrote:
>
>.. What I mean is that until I get more room on my NetBSD HD, I would like 
>.. to be able to use the installer to say maybe use a command to tgz the 
>.. entire install out to my Mac HD.  I dunno, I don't know how to explain 
>.. what I am meaning....I guess the best explanation would be something 
>.. similar to cpin and cpout, maybe caller tgz_in and tgz_out or something 
>.. so I could basically do the install in reverse...I am tired forgive my 
>.. rambling..
>
>
>If you install the hfsutil utility, you can copy files to and from your
>MacOS file system while running NetBSD.
>
>Search the mailing list archives or take a look at www.netbsd.org or
>www.macbsd.com for information about retrieving hfsutil.
>
>This is somewhat complementary to the installer which allows you to
>copy files to and from your NetBSD file systems while running MacOS.
>
>- Erik

I guess what I meant was that I was hoping there was a way that say once 
I got my system configured exactly as I liked it I could basically from 
the mini-shell do something like this

% tar -zcvf <path to MacOS>file.tgz /*

Does that make sense?

-Greg