ford@kenobi.UUCP (Mike Ditto) (03/10/88)
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.10 of Fri Oct 2 1987 on kenobi (usg-unix-v) In article <8803021718.AA18540@jade.berkeley.edu> PHIL@UIUCVMD.BITNET (Phil Howard) writes: > Has anyone written a program for the Amiga to process files that are in > TAR (UNIX Tape ARchive) or SHAR (SHell ARchive) formats? If not, does > anyone have complete specifications of these formats that a potential > programmer would need? I have written a tar program that runs on the Amiga. I wouldn't mind giving out the source, but it wouldn't be of much use as it is written for Unix. It works on the Amiga using a Unix compatibility library I am writing, and I don't plan on giving that out until it's "finished" (whatever that turns out to mean). I will give a working Amiga binary to anyone who wants it. I will also give out (or post) the source (Unix version) if there is interest. However, a public domain tar was posted recently in comp.sources.unix, and it has several additional fancy features (mine is basically a functional "clone" of the standard Unix command). A SHAR (shell archive) file is actually a set of commands for the Unix Bourne Shell, a fairly complex command interpreter which would be very difficult to duplicate. A program has been written which reads a shell archive looking for the commands that are usually placed in such files, and extracts the contained files. There is a version for the Amiga called "unshar"; I have seen it posted in the Amiga groups. -=] Ford [=- "Well, he didn't know what to do, so (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) he decided to look at the government, ford%kenobi@crash.CTS.COM to see what they did, and scale it ...!sdcsvax!crash!kenobi!ford down and run his life that way." -- Laurie Anderson