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KBACKUP requires some other software to be installed on your
system. However, most of them should be available on any properly
installed UNIX system. If you are using a Slackware-based LINUX ,
all you need is to install afio(1) on your machine.
The programs required by KBACKUP are:
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dialog : the dialog program is being used for doing all the user
interaction.
If dialog(1) is not available, KBACKUP will fall back to
. Without dialog(1) , it is still fully
functional (just a bit ugly)!
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gtar : the GNU tape archiver. A normal tar(1) will not
do! Under LINUX , tar(1) is GNU's tar , so do not
worry.
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afio : the archive program. It is KBACKUP 's preferred archive
handler, somehow more powerful than tar , but less well
tested.
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grep , fgrep , sed :
some text processing programs that should be installed on every proper
UNIX system.
In fact, you do not need both, tar(1) and afio(1) . KBACKUP can
use either of them to handle its archives. Afio is strongly
recommended. For handling encrypted archives , you
should get afio(1) version 2.4.2 or newer.
In the file paths , you can set environment variables pointing
to the various programs. Just in case the standard settings should not
work for you.
KBACKUP should run with any Bourne Shell ( sh(1) ) compatible shell.
However, I have mainly tested it using the Bourne-Again Shell
( bash(1) ), therefore I cannot guarantee that it will work with
others, but I do not see any problems. Especially, it appears to be
working well with the rather small ash(1) shell, which is of
interest for putting it onto boot disks.
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Jens Ritter
1998-08-18