From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Message-Id: <199701261037.LAA20149@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: tar for DJGPP
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970125195745.24180C-100000@sparkie.gnofn.org> from "Colin W. Glenn" at "Jan 25, 97 08:02:38 pm"
To: cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org (Colin W. Glenn)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 11:37:56 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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> On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Thomas Demmer wrote: 
> 
> > does anybody of you know a tar port to DJGPP?  I mean a fully fledged
> > tar that can also produce tar files? 
> 
> This might help, there's several good DOS port of TAR, some of them even
> include the source!  I know because I needed a Tar, and downloaded ALL of
> them to check them out.  The best one I've found so far is:
> 
> <a href="http://oak.oakland.edu/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/tar320g.zip">
> tar320g.zip</a>
> 
> It's a 181k Zip with the sources in a separate Zip inside.  Runs right out
> of the box, and has a good TXT file to pore over.

Being at it: A while ago I asked about someone having built a tar
based on sockets so that one can do a tar backup over network a la

   tar cvf server:/dev/rst0 dir

but didn't get an answer.

> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku AT gil DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de