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From: garry@inside.UUCP (Garry Glendown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: TAR for the AMIGA wanted
Message-ID: <3628.AA3628@inside>
Date: 11 Sep 90 09:28:12 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Adonis (ECG055)
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In <119468%linus.mitre.org>, jsims%mwunix.mitre.org (James Sims) writes:
>I downloaded a HUGE tar file recently and can't seem to decode it - I tried
>portar from FF~2, TarSplit from FF~150, and tar from ff??, but none seem to
>work (either GURU or fail "can't handle links"). The tar file decodes fine
>on the SUN at work. Anyone have a working version of TAR for the Amiga?

I had some trouble lately with TAR... the file I created on our Apollo WS'
wouldn't unpack as new directories weren't listed in the archive, but only
used... TAR created multiple directories of the same name (I don't know how
that worked... must have been a bug in 2.0 and 1.3), and tarsplit wouldn't
create the dirs, so it couldn't create the files.

If you send me a short tar-file (consists of 2 links or so...), I'll try to
addapt my modificated source to your problem...
(If you do send it, please do to: garry@DGIHRZ01.BITNET)

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    Garry Glendown      Adonis (+49)6042-4081    ..!cbmger!inside!garry