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From: macduff@cbnewse.att.com (Roger R. Espinosa)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: tar(1) for personal computers?
Keywords: smaller than gnutar? tar sans tape?
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.132344.19099@cbnewse.att.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 13:23:44 GMT
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Organization: The Rabbit Corps
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Hi.

Having found myself suddenly wanting to download lotsa files to 
my machine at home, I was wondering if there was C source to a 
smaller tar(1) command -- I've sen GNU tar, and frankly, it's much
more than I need: the ability to extract/create (maybe) tar files. 
GNU tar has lots of UNIX-specific stuff, dealing with tapes and 
devices, which won't translate at all to the home machine.

I really *need* C source -- the machine at home isn't an IBM-type,
isn't a Macintosh, isn't an Amiga, so any known executable type
files for these sources won't help me. :-(

Thanks!
Roger
rre@ihlpn.ATT.COM

(It's an Acorn, actually, and I doubt anyone's got archives for 'em
this side of the Atlantic, but heck, if anyone has 'em...:-)