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From: softbrek AT hathi DOT informatik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
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Subject: Re: DJTART
Date: 23 Aug 1995 14:44:52 GMT
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John Carter <ECE AT dwaf-hri DOT pwv DOT gov DOT za> writes:

>How do you use DJTART.EXE?

>I want to tar - gzip & gunzip some files for neat installing of a 
>program on sundry users systems.

djtart.exe is like "tar tvf", i.e. it lists the contents of a non-packed
tar file

djtarx.exe is like "tar xvf", i.e. it unpacks uncompressed tar files

If you want to *build* your own tar files, you should look up SimTel for
DOS-ports of tar. Note: they all have problems unpacking Unix-born tar files
with long filenames, causing overwritten and improperly-named files on
DOS, so you should really use djtarx.exe for unpacking!

But, IMHO, zip/unzip is a better idea if you want to use it on several
platforms (if you need to, you can always carray unzip-5.12.tar.gz with
you in case you ever meet a computer without an unzip installed :-)

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)