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- From: try@support.rci.dk (Torben Rybner)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.unix.msdos,comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: Shareware to TAR on DOS machines?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul17.091620.3212@support.rci.dk>
- Date: 17 Jul 92 09:16:20 GMT
- References: <1992Jul11.224914.29330@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: RC International, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- huangjs@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jingsheng Huang) writes:
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- >Does anyone know whether there is any shareware to read
- >Unix tar files on PC DOS machines?
-
- >My problem is to transfer a lot of text files from unix to DOS
- >environment. I have access to a PC connected to a 9 track
- >tape drive, but the software provided by the tape driver maker
- >does not read Unix tar formats. I can upload the tar files to PC as
- >ascii or binary files. Then I need a program to turn the tar files
- >into original directories and files.
-
- >Any advice? Thanks in advance. Best, Jing
-
- I saw a version of GNU-tar in an European Simtel mirror (nic.funet.fi) - with
- drivers for Adaptec adapters, but it also reads ordinary PC-files in tar format,
- and thus should solve your problem.
-
- The file was named "aspi" something, as I recollect it.
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-
- Regards
-
- Torben Rybner, ICL DATA A/S, Lautrupbjerg 1, DK-2750 Ballerup, Denmark
- try@cube.icl.dk
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