Notes on OS/2 TAR

This is a port of PD TAR to OS/2. All features are functional, except that
reading/writing to a "raw" device is not supported. I needed TAR
(Unix archiving) to port Unix files onto OS/2.

To take apart a TAR file, use the TAR utility. I ported this to OS/2
myself, and as a time-saving measure, "removed" some features.
Specifically, direct device access and multi-volume TAR files DO NOT
WORK.

COM, OBJ and EXE files are added and extracted in BINARY mode. Other
file extensions are presumed to be text files, and are converted to
and from Unix format as appropriate (stored in Unix format in the
TAR archive, and in DOS format when extracted). Other BINARY extensions
can be declared using the -U option. However, most Unix archives are
source code, and so this doesn't apply.

        [D:\]TAR -x -F ARCHIVE.TAR

will extract all files from ARCHIVE.TAR, re-creating the original
directory structure. Filenames are converted from Unix format to
DOS format as the extraction proceeds.

This utility has been used to extract several large FSF distribution
archives, including GHOST.TAZ, with no problems.

TAR.EXE has been "bound", and will work under either OS/2 or DOS. I am
not including source, because I made no substantive changes to the PD
TAR distribution (a little cutting, and re-compile).

Have Fun!
Martin Weigel.