Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:37:43 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Gurunandan R Bhat <grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: tar for DJGPP
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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Gurunandan R Bhat wrote:
> 
> > why not use djtar which comes with djgpp? i haven't used it myself mind 
> > you, but  i did see the info file sometime ago.
> 
> djtar cannot create a tar file, it can only untar an existing tar file, 
> whereas Thomas asked for one that does support tar creation.

I, myself, noticed that, but didn't use it because I had need of TAR
multiple times in a real mode session, ie I was calling it up to 160 time
at one sitting to extact a _single_ file for working with.  Even loading
cwsdpmi as resident wouldn't help because I'd have to do it before
launching my command shell, and I didn't want it in my autoexec because I
might not need it.  Is this making sense?