PHIL@UIUCVMD.BITNET (Phil Howard) (03/03/88)
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?
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (03/08/88)
[Gack! I hate trying to get mail to BITNET.] In article <8803021718.AA18540@jade.berkeley.edu> (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? There are a couple of programs. There is John Gilmore's (...!hoptoad!gnu) Portar (portable tar) which is a complete tar, and tarsplit which will read tar files. And Dave Wecker's Shar program that will shar and unshar (with the -u flag) shar files. All of these are available on Fish Disks (I am beginning to need a Fish Disk Yellow Pages database!) --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.