Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!samsung!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!chip!bazyar From: bazyar@chip (Jawaid Bazyar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Un-TAR for the GS Summary: Part of the new ShellStuff v1.2 Message-ID: <1991Feb25.220937.15570@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 25 Feb 91 22:09:37 GMT Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar) Organization: Mutation Testing Facility, University of Illinois Lines: 35 Someone was asking a week or so ago about a way to extract files from Unix TAR archives on an Apple II. Well, after Doug Gwyn pointed out how trivial tar archives are, I decided to sit down and write an untar program. Four hours later, I had it. I posted it yesterday to comp.binaries.apple2, grouped with other terribly useful Orca shell utilities. The package is called ShellStuff v1.2, and is 100% free. I even put the tar source into the public domain (something I hadn't done with the other programs in the package) because I WANT people to use that source to create desktop based, ProDOS 8, etc versions of the program. Thanks Doug! (and in a plug for the rest of ShellStuff...) MORE - a very unix-like MORE utility, lacking only two features (backing up and regexp searching. I have a regexp library almost completed, however). CONV - a multipurpose converter. Handles the following conversions: Unix text to Apple II text Apple II text to Unix text tabs to spaces filenames to lowercase CAL - the Berkeley 4.3BSD 'cal' program. It's just plain neat, and only 8k to boot. No source provided until I can verify this program's distributability. TAR - see above NOW - a silly little program, not intended for the easily offended. QTIME - a nice time utility. It spells out the current time in easily readable English (if there is such a thing :-). -- Jawaid Bazyar |"I'm sure K&R have never heard of Mike." Senior/Computer Engineering | bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu |"That's okay. I'm sure Mike's never heard of K&R". Apple II Forever! | (discussion about Orca/C) Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com