Ports of GNU tar and other tars See the end of file for copying conditions. * Introduction Most entries in this file are out of date, unfortunately. Such entries are marked with an `X'. Run grep '^\*\*[^X]' PORTS to extract valid entries. Please write bug-tar@gnu.org if you are aware of various ports of GNU tar to non-GNU and non-Unix systems not listed here, or for corrections. Please provide the goal system, a complete and stable URL, the maintainer name and address, the tar version used as a base, and your comments. * GNU/Linux and Unix ** Star is a tape archiver similar to tar. * Amiga **X ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/GNUtar-1.11.8.lha maintained by Enrico Forestieri Based on tar 1.11.8. **X ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current/amiga-bin/tar-1.11.8-bin.lha maintained by the ADE group Based on tar 1.11.8, needs ixemul.library. **X ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/gnutar.lha maintained by * DEC alpha (NT) **X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip maintained by Drew Bliss & Geoff Voelker * DEC VAX (VMS) **X http://www.lp.se/free/vmstar/ maintained by Richard Levitte This is not GNU tar, but a separate implementation. ** maintained by William Bader For V4.7. Based on an old PDtar. Requires compatible shared libraries to run V5 or V6 executables. * IBM/PC (DV/X) **X ftp://qdeck.com/ (?) maintained by David Ronis For Desqview/X. Everything works besides compression. Copy of hacked sources available, some of DV/X's programmer's library also needed. * IBM/PC (MSDOS) **X http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/ http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish (Germany) ftp://ftp.simtel.net/simtelnet/gnu ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish maintained by Darrel Hankerson You get many GNU tools, not only `tar'. The GNUish project is described in `gnuish_t.htm'. ** The DJGPP development tools also include some `tar' utilities. **X ftp://ftp.mcs.com/mcsnet.users/les/dos-gnutar/ maintained by Leslie Mikesell Based on tar 1.11.2. Support for SCSI (via ASPI) and network (rsh over packet driver). No support for win95 long file names. **X ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/PCmisc/aspi-tar/* maintained by Christoph Splittgerber Based on tar 1.10. Support for SCSI (via ASPI). **X ftp://wuarchive (?) Several DOS version based on PDtar. John Gilmore says he has copies of several vintages saved. **X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.14/languages/ada/toolkit/msdos/gtar/gtar.exe ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.14/languages/ada/toolkit/msdos/gtar/gtar.taz ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.14/languages/ada/toolkit/msdos/gtar/gtar.zip **X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.4/os2/archiver/tar.zip Based on PDtar. **X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip maintained by Drew Bliss & Geoff Voelker GNU tar for NT (intel and Alpha platforms). ** ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/untgz095.zip maintained by Tillmann Steinbrecher The `untgz' program is a fast .tar or .tar.gz (.tgz) extractor. **X http://people.darmstadt.netsurf.de/tst/tar.htm maintained by Tillmann Steinbrecher This is not a `tar' port, but an index of them. * IBM/PC (OS/2) **X http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/archiver/gtar254.zip http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/archiver/gtak254.zip maintained by Andreas Kaiser Version 2.54. Based on tar 1.10. The second archive contains SCSI drivers (DAT streamers notably) and rmt-type programs. * IBM/PC (Win32: Windows 95, NT 3.5 or NT 4.0) **X ftp://ftp.cygnus.com:~ftp/pub/sac/win32/usersrc/* maintained by Cygnus GNU-Win32 B17.1 distribution. Download all files, `cat' them together, and `untar' the result. You get many GNU tools, not only `tar'. Based on tar 1.11.2. **X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip maintained by Drew Bliss & Geoff Voelker GNU tar for NT (intel and Alpha platforms). ** ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/untgz095.zip maintained by Tillmann Steinbrecher The `untgz' program is a fast .tar or .tar.gz (.tgz) extractor. * IBM/PC (Windows 3.1) **X ftp://ftp.mcs.com/mcsnet.users/les/win-gnutar/ maintained by Leslie Mikesell Support for network (rsh over winsock). No support for win95 long file names. **X ftp://ftp.gamesdomain.ru/.1/os/windows/programr/tar.zip Based on GNU tar 1.11.2. * Macintosh ** Paulo Abreu (paulotex at yahoo dot com) did a limited port of GNU tar to Darwin, with support for resource forks and finder info, but this no longer seems to be available. ** There is a tar in Stuffit Expander which is available many places and comes with MacOS. It creates some spurious files but works on average. ** There is an excellent GNU tar bundled in Tenon MachTen, but it does not seem to be available separately. * Copyright notice Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU tar. GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. Local Variables: mode: outline paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" version-control: never End: