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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: File archiving
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Date: 7 Mar 88 17:49:18 GMT
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In article <8803021718.AA18540@jade.berkeley.edu> (Phil Howard) writes:
> Has anyone written a program for the Amiga to process files that are in
> TAR (UNIX Tape ARchive) or SHAR (SHell ARchive) formats?  If not, does
> anyone have complete specifications of these formats that a potential
> programmer would need?

There are a couple of programs. There is John Gilmore's (...!hoptoad!gnu)
Portar (portable tar) which is a complete tar, and tarsplit which will
read tar files. And Dave Wecker's Shar program that will shar and unshar
(with the -u flag) shar files. All of these are available on Fish Disks
(I am beginning to need a Fish Disk Yellow Pages database!) 


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