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- GNU Tar 1.10 Port for the Atari ST with MiNT (and without)
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- Well, I decided it was time I had a full fledged TAR that could handle
- compressed archives rather than uncompressing and then untaring. So, I got
- the latest version of GNU Tar I could, which is v1.10, and started to port it
- to the Atari.
-
- I essentially use this program with MiNT, as MiNT provides all the facilities
- neccessary for me to use this program successfully. Supporting pipes are
- essential for the compress/uncompress function of GNU Tar to work, otherwise
- all the other functions should work under standard TOS.
-
- Included in the binaries part of the this port is also my own compiled version
- of compress v4.0. All other versions of compress that I found opened the
- stdin/stdout functions in ASCII mode rather than binary and confused GNU Tar
- when using compressed archives. The one included has been tested to great
- length and shouldn't cause any problems, just make sure that its in your
- default PATH statement in your environment.
-
- This version has been compiled with GNU GCC v1.40 and the MiNT libraries at
- patchlevel 14. To take full advantage of GNU Tar, use MiNT v0.9, which has
- the ability to support symbolic links within the kernel.
-
- I must pass a lot of credit onto Eric Smith for all the work he has put into
- making MiNT, for which without this and the libraries, this port would have
- been so much harder to do.
-
- All I can say is it works for me, so share and enjoy.
-
- Please also read the BUGS and COPYING files.
-
- Alan Hourihane
- email: alanh@logitek.co.uk
- 02/10/91
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