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Re: Unix Tar for a PC?

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From: Arto V. Viitanen
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 1991 07:44
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>>>>> On 5 Feb 91 18:44:31 GMT, sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) said:

Andy> Is there a PC tar program that's compatible with the Unix tar format?

Sure. At simtel20 (26.2.0.74) there are

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>
DETAR11.ARC   B   20480  880125  Process a TAR file on PC
PAX2EXE.ZIP   B   57235  900406  PAX v2.0 - Unix-like tar and cpio for MS-DOS
PDTAR.ARC     B  117152  880614  Read/write TAR files on PC
TAR.ZIP       B   29353  900823  Unix-compatible TAR archive maker/extractor

Directory PD1:<MSDOS.STARTER>
TARREAD.EXE   B   14928  870820  Read Unix TAR files on a PC

And if I don't remember wrong, gnuish project (convert some GNU utilities to
MSDOS) has also tar.

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Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland
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