Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 07:56:49 -0400
From: kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
To: ECE AT dwaf-hri DOT pwv DOT gov DOT za
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: TAR again...
Reply-To: kagel AT ts1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

   From: John Carter <ECE AT dwaf-hri DOT pwv DOT gov DOT za>
   Organization: Dpt Water Affairs & Forestry (IWQS)
   Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 11:59:46 +0200

   Does anyone have a free version of tar to tar up a bunch of files 
   together?

I have a portable 'ar' I wrote.  It refuses non-text files, as it does not
build a symbol table, but that is one line of source which you could remove if
needed.  It supports three different versions of long filename handling,
truncation to 14 characters, DEC Ultrix extended headers, SystemV R4 Extended
Name Tables, and my own proprietary Distributed Extended Name Table format for
both archive creation and extraction, automatically determining format for
listing and extraction.

Unfortunately, as an ar port, it does not support paths (though you could add
them easily to the proprietary Distributed Extended Name Table format).  Let me
know if it will help.  I have ported it to several UNIXes and DJGPP.

-- 
Art S. Kagel, kagel AT ts1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

"Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given" -- Proverb