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- From: <PENSTONE@QUCDNEE1>
- Subject: tar reader
-
- Greetings:
-
- Here are the programs to read and/or convert Tar format files to
- VMS.
- The program TAR2VMS.C reads from a /foreign tape, extracts
- the files into a directory tree starting in the default directory
- when the program is run. Directories will be created automatically.
- For the simplest operation, just compile link, and RUN it; this
- does the transfer automatically, as long as there are no strange
- files on the tape.
- To get listings, you will have to define a foreign command:
- $ command :== $directory:tar2vms
- and then use the format: command [options]
-
- You should list the source file to get all of the hookers and
- caveats from the comments.
-
- The program FILECON.C will convert a stream file (one written
- by UNIX or a C program) with line-feed control into a conventional
- vms text file with carriage control. It is useful if you had to run
- TAR2VMS with the "s" option (copy files unconverted to disc) and then
- are converting selected files manually.
-
- I hadn't planned on this program growing beyond a couple of
- pages, but you know how these things grow...
-
-
- Sid Penstone,
- Queen's University,
- Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L3N6
- phone (613) 547-6935
-
- BITNET: penstone@qucdn
- penstone@qucdnee1 (preferred after may 15)
-