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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: TAR for apple
Message-ID: <12550@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Apr 90 02:38:52 GMT
References: <1990Apr10.005254.17023@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1990Apr10.005254.17023@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dat33228@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Derek A. Taubert) writes:
>     Does anyone know of a version of tar for the apple IIgs?

Why bother?  All that a tar archive is is a concatenation of files
with a header record before each.  Most of the info in the header
record is of no value in the GS environment.  If you just want a
convenient way to package several files together into a single
file, for example for ease of downloading, you can use much simpler
ar-like utilities.  In fact I have couple I use when transfering
text files between UNIX and my IIGS I'll be glad to send you.
Send me e-mail if you want them.