Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Unix Tar for a PC? Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 07:44:28 GMT References: <91Feb5.134410est.19594@me.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto Viitanen) Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: sun@me.utoronto.ca's message of 5 Feb 91 18:44:31 GMT >>>>> 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: 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: 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. -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland