Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!island!daniel
From: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith, Island Volleybrawl Team)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: PDTAR for Msdos success?
Keywords: compiles arc non-converting
Message-ID: <289@island.uu.net>
Date: 22 Jul 88 17:28:06 GMT
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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	Late last year, John Gilmore posted an excellent implementation
of tar. It's a great replacement for the tar that comes with BSD Unix.
Although it was supposed to compile for Msdos as well, I never was able
to. Someone else ported John's work to Msdos, but then decided it
would be a good idea to start converting every text file in sight
(a no-no!) to/from Msdos/Unix. Among other bugs/features, this person's
derivation (the name isn't handy at the moment) made all .arc files
in a tar archive zero length. That made the program unusable for
my purposes.

	So...has anyone taken John's pdtar/gnutar and gotten it to compile
on Msdos, and left the program alone so that it does what it is supposed
to do (handle any file, leave formats alone)? Or at least added in things
that are *optional*? Thanks much for any info.

				dan

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