Short: GNU tar 1.11.8, fully functional Author: François Pinard and others, port by Enrico Forestieri Uploader: enrico com unipr it (Enrico Forestieri) Type: util/arc Requires: disk/misc/dev-hdl37.2.lha, util/misc/fifolib38_2.lha, util/pack/gzip124x2.lha Architecture: m68k-amigaos GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, automatic archive compression/decompression and special features that allow `tar' to be used for incremental and full backups. There are several ports of GNU tar for the amiga but all have some limitations. Those not using ixemul.library don't allow multivolume archives and automatic compression/decompression, whereas those compiled with gcc have problems with the dev-handlers and so cannot be used to exchange data with unix machines. This port was done with SAS/C 6.57 for amigas with Kickstart 2.04 or higher and does not have such limitations. You will be able to create multivolume archives on a unix machine with `tar -M -c -v -f /dev/rdiskette ' and extract them on your amiga with `tar -M -x -v -f DEV:PC0', or automatically extract files from compressed archives through `tar -z -x -v -f archive.tar.gz'. To achive this functionality you need device-handler, fifo-handler and gzip which you can find on Aminet. If you use a utility such as ClockDaemon and keep your hardware clock at GMT, you may want to install the timezone info. In this package you can find the archive zoneinfo.lha, to install it simply do `lha -ax x zoneinfo.lha s:'. Do not forget to set the environment variable TZ (which certainly you already have set if you use an utility like the above). If you want to recompile tar, you will need the foreach command, which you can find in the package aminet:util/cli/finkelshelltoo.lha, and the package aminet:dev/c/unixlib.lha. The SMakefiles assume that the includes from unixlib.lha are in include:unix and that the library unix.lib is in lib:.