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From: davis AT space DOT mit DOT edu (John E. Davis)
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Subject: Re: Tar that converts unix to DOS line endings
Date: 26 Aug 1995 22:36:55 GMT
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On 26 Aug 1995 21:41:55 GMT, Skip Egley  <egley AT albany DOT net> wrote:
 : Can anyone recommend a good tar executable for DOS.  I have tried a couple of them 
 : and they do not convert the CR to CR/LF or whatever it is that DOS wants.  I had to 
 : write a program to do it myself, but it's a pain to do it when there's lots of 
 : files.  It would be nice for tar to do it automatically - isn't there one out there 
 : like that?

I frequently move both binary and text files back and forth between Unix,
VMS, and MSDOS systems.  To facilitate this, I wrote my own program to
archive/dearchive multiple files.  The resulting archive contains
information such as whether or not a file is binary as well as a 16 bit
checksum.  When dearchived, the files are created in the correct mode.

The nice thing about this program is that it requires a list of files to
archive.  I say that this is a nice thing because I can specify exactly what
to archive.

As an example, consider the list file, jed.lis which may look like:
   
   .
@lib/site.sl
@jed.lis
*bin/msshell.pif
@src/makefile.dos
   .

Lines that begin with a `@' denote text files and lines that begin with a
`*' are binary.  Any other line is regarded as a comment.  The pathnames
are specified as unix pathnames regardless of whether or not I am archiving
files on Unix or not.

If there is any interest, I will post the source.  It is only about 500
lines and should compile on almost any system.  It's not tar but it meets my
needs.

--John