On 2016-07-03, Convergent MightyFrame <
mighty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> DoN,
> It's been a while since I've spoken up here. Hope you are well.
> I'm wondering if you might be able to point me to a good source for
> tprobe. I am unable to find it anywhere else.
A quick search shows that you are right. In part, the problem
is that there is a commercial package out there with the same name,
which seems to have shoved all mention of the rest aside.
I've got it sitting on my systems. I've got a tar file which
contains:
======================================================================
drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2006-07-10 22:50:15 tprobe-1.0/
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 47464 1992-12-30 14:38:00 tprobe-1.0/part01
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 437 1998-06-03 14:51:43 tprobe-1.0/MANIFEST
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 1211 1998-06-03 14:51:43 tprobe-1.0/Makefile
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 1140 1998-06-03 14:51:43 tprobe-1.0/Makefile.3b1
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 3465 1998-06-03 14:51:43 tprobe-1.0/README
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 1675 1998-06-03 14:51:43 tprobe-1.0/README.2150
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 2440 1998-06-03 14:51:44 tprobe-1.0/README.5945
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 1931 1998-06-03 14:51:44 tprobe-1.0/README.exb
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 2742 1998-06-03 14:51:44 tprobe-1.0/README.qic
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 1657 1998-06-03 14:51:44 tprobe-1.0/README.tzk10
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 11058 1998-06-03 14:51:45 tprobe-1.0/tprobe.c
-rw-r----- 10035/10035 9992 1998-06-03 14:51:45 tprobe-1.0/tprobe.man
======================================================================
Note the "MANIFEST" which suggests to me that it was originally
distributed in shar (shell archive) format, and the file just above it
(part01) turns out to be the actual shar file. (In case you haven't
encountered shar files before -- you extract them simply by feeding them
to /bin/sh. As follows:
/bin/sh part01
after moving to a location where you have a directory for it all.
But -- you should not need to do this, because the tar file
contains it all as well. I saved it with the extraction just for
general purposes. You *might* want to feed part01 to /bin/sh (or
wherever your sh lives) just to be sure to get what was originally sent.
I seem to remember tweaking the default block size when compiling it, so
I could get the smallest file. The shar would have the original source
no matter what I did to it. (Not sure whether this is one which I
modified or not.)
A number of the README.* files document jumpers on various tape
drives of the period.
Anyway -- I can send you the compressed tar file:
======================================================================
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 28K Jul 3 21:53 tprobe-1.0.tar.gz
======================================================================
or just the shar file.
But let me know -- I don't send attachments until someone knows
that they are coming and agrees.
Just send to my e-mail (after fixing the address as shown in the
.sig block below) and I'll e-mail to you.