Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!mks.com!andy From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) Subject: Re: Is there a MSDOS .Z uncompress utility? Date: Mon, 15 Apr 91 06:20:26 GMT Message-ID: <1991Apr15.062026.4025@mks.com> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA References: <1991Apr10.110952.13111@uwasa.fi> <2360@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> In article (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >In article <2360@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> (Joe Petrolito) writes: >[discussing LF to CR/LF conversion of UNIX text files] > Am I asking for too much, or is there a way to do this conversion > automatically somewhere during the uncompress/tar process? > >Has GNU tar been ported to DOS? tar xfz will do the trick, if it has >been. Having LF converted to CR/LF as the default by tar is a bad idea. Just think of all the binaries which would no longer run after untarring. Why would GNU tar ported to MS-DOS do such a thing when invoked as `tar xfz file.tar.Z'? It should only extract the contents of the compressed tar file without changing the contents. However, if one knows that all the files in the tar file are text then an option to do the conversion is desirable. -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, N2J 2W9 CANADA Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861