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- The following two utilities untar and uncompress files from the browser. To
- run, you simple double click either a .tar or .Z file and things take off.
- Thanks to some code submitted by Chris Kane, the utilities will either quit
- if you simply double click an icon, or they'll stick around if you launch
- the application first. Also, both now correctly tell the WorkSpace manager
- that stuff has been changed, so it updates itself.
-
- To install them, simply copy UnTar and UnCompress from the respective dir-
- ectories to either /LocalApps to make them globally visible to all users,
- or to ~/Apps to make them visible only to yourself. You may also have to
- inform the WorkSpace Manager of the correct appication to launch. This can
- be accomplished via the Inspector Panel, Command-2, which either a tar or
- Z file is selected in the browser.
-
- Chris also made the suggestion that there should be a third utility that
- untars and uncompresses in one shot. I decided against this for two reasons.
- First, the WorkSpace manager cannot handle suffixes with a '.' in them, so
- it's impossible to make a suffix .tar.Z. With this is mind, the only way to
- make an untar'er and uncomrpess'er is to make it use suffix .Z. Unfortunately,
- this means the utility will always try to untar a .tar.Z, and or might not
- be able to handle just a .Z. So, since it's trivial to have to double click
- a secodn time on the tar, I figured that I'd leave the utilities separate.
-
- If you've got any suggestions or comments, or code improvements like Chris'
- please send them to;
-
- alex@cosmos.ACS.CalPoly.EDU or
- alex@data.ACS.CalPoly.EDU for NeXTMail.
-
-
-
- Revision History:
-
- 5-15-91: Initial idea and creation for tar files.
- 6-07-91: Bordom leads me to clean up untar, make the icons pretty, create
- UnCompress, and submit both to nova.cc.purdue.edu.
- 6-09-91: On suggestion and help from Chris Kane, both can message the Work-
- Space Manager to update itself, they quit if clicking is used to
- launch the app, otherwise they stick around, and a little more
- cleaning is done to the code.
-