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From: plyon@ut-emx.uucp (Paul Lyon)
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Subject: Re: TAR for OS/2 HPFS
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Date: 20 Mar 91 18:10:22 GMT
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In article <8295@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>Anyone know of tar for OS/2 that supports HPFS naming (not just 8.3!)?
>
>Thanks!
>
>--kyler

A port of the GNU tar programme to OS/2 is available in Volume 2 of
comp.binaries.os2, archived on the machine mims-iris.waterloo.edu. This port
does support HPFS and is long-filename aware. 

The port was done by Kai-Uwe Rommel of the Technical Univesity of Munich,
who has also ported quite a number of other useful programmes to OS/2, 
including such things as GNU awk, perl, compress, flex, and bisoon. In
view of how little in the way of public domain and shareware programmes 
is available for OS/2, it seems to me that all of us OS/2 users on the
net owe Rommel a vote of thanks for these efforts, which have
significantly increased that number.

Hope this helps!

Paul Lyon

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