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- From: roskos@dockmaster.arpa (Eric Roskos)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: Public Domain TAR w/source
- Date: 11 Jun 88 04:10:16 GMT
- Summary: pdtar.arc, public domain TAR w/source code
- Approved: dick@slvblc.UUCP
-
- [This port supports both MS-DOS and Minix. DF]
-
- tar provides a way to store many files into a single archive, which can
- be kept in another Unix file, stored on an I/O device such as tape,
- floppy, cartridge, or disk, or piped to another program. It is useful
- for making backup copies, or for packaging up a set of files to move
- them to another system.
-
- tar has existed since Version 7 Unix with very little change. It has
- been proposed as the standard format for interchange of files among
- systems that conform to the P1003 "Portable Operating System" standard.
-
- This version of tar supports the extensions which were proposed in
- the P1003 draft standards, including owner and group names, and support
- for named pipes, fifos, and block and character devices. Under DOS
- and Minix, it also supports the P1003 Trial Use Standard format for
- multivolume archives on floppy disk.
-
- When run under DOS, this version of tar performs various conversions
- intended to aid in transferring files between DOS and Unix. Filenames
- are converted by deleting all but the last "." from the filename when
- reading an archive under DOS; and they are converted to lowercase when
- writing an archive under DOS. (If you use the -v option, it will show
- you when dot conversions like this take place.) If a conversion is
- dubious, it will prompt you to enter a proper DOS filename.
-
- Also when running under DOS, conversion between newlines and CR/LFs
- is performed for ASCII files (the archive is always written in the
- Unix-compatible form, i.e., with only newlines present).
-
- When reading an archive, this version of tar continues after finding
- an error. Previous versions required the "i" option to ignore checksum
- errors.
-
- This port is by Eric Roskos (csed-1!roskos, roskos@CSED-1.IDA.ORG,
- or Roskos@DOCKMASTER.ARPA), and has unfortunately diverged too far to
- make re-merging with future releases of the original PD Tar very
- feasible.
-