Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 15:04:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: DJGPP AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Help help, and TAR
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On Thu, 30 May 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:

>   (2) I tried to run the packer/unpacker called TAR. As it said that it is
> from GNU, I mention it here. It has one big fault: when I type `tar +help',
> the help output comes out all at once, the top of it shoots off the screen so
> I can't read it, and it totally ignores `> T$' and `| MORE'.

It probably goes to stderr, so you should use one of the methods for 
stderr redirection; see the FAQ.

If you only want to unTar, it's best to use DJTAR that comes with DJGPP 
v2, because it has these additional features:

	1) It can unzip and untar .tar.gz files in one pass, without 
wasting disk storage for temporary files (important for large 
distributions, like Emacs).

	2) It converts filenames that are illegal under 8+3 DOS file 
namespace, and does so in a way compatible with other DJGPP programs.  It 
also leaves a log of filename changes in a disk file.

	3) It knows about long filenames, and so leaves the original 
filenames intact when it runs under Win95.

	4) It allows to unTar only a single file (handy to browse those README 
files) or a group of files, and can redirect the files to a pipe (so you 
can view them with `more' or `less').

	5) Everything it writes to the console goes to stdout, not stderr 
(except the error messages).