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Re:PDB – ANSI-C to PostScript compiler (1993) by geocar on Sunday October 09, 2016 @04:26AM (#12670311)
Sadly it doesn't look like it's been preserved:

    pdb2.1-demo/
    pdb2.1-demo/COPYING
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/pdb-cpp
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/pdb-comp
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/pdb-opt
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/rs6000/pdb
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/sun4/
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/sun4/pdb
    pdb2.1-demo/bin/sun4/pdb-comp
    tar: Truncated input file (needed 253952 bytes, only 245760 available)
    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
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Re:PDB – ANSI-C to PostScript compiler (1993) by Lord_Nightmare on Sunday October 09, 2016 @11:59AM (#12671747)
hunting for another copy...

Found an intact copy: ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/postscript/pdb2.1-demo.tar.gz which someone recompressed from compress to gzip at some point. The original compress archive seems to be lost except in truncated form :(

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Re:PDB – ANSI-C to PostScript compiler (1993) by geocar on Monday October 10, 2016 @05:02PM (#12679758)
Cool thanks.

Now I need to find some ancient boxes...

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