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TAR

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#104012From: John RothJun 17, 1993 5:09 AM
I am hiving trouble untaring unix tarred files. I have both tar.lzh and tar.zoo they both untar 1 file and then the .lzh one stopps and the .zoo one crashes the system. I have tried tar -xvf filename and tar xvf filename and tar fvx filename (also tried it with a dash in front of it) and tar xvif filename (and all combinations there of) and tar xviBf filename (and all combinations) plus all these with dashes in front of them. If anyone has any idea about the tar archiver and can help me I would greatly appreciate it. All I want to do is untar the tarred files in the archives dir. Or at least untar them period. thankx
#104090From: Paul ToalJun 18, 1993 5:38 AM
There is one readme file that is not named readme. It has the exact Amiga particulars in it.
#104781From: William CageJun 24, 1993 8:25 PM
Well, I ran into the same problems. It seemed to me that the tars that I was attempting to use didn't like the OS that I had, so I took the docs and wrote a un-tar program. It will break out the files in a tar archive into the individual files with respect to the directory structure, but that is it. It will not make tar archives. It does not support compression or any other "standard" tar features. It will un-tar plain tar archives though. If you want it, drop me a note and I will send it to you (source code included if you want to improve it). Bill