tar/PORTS

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  Most entries in this file are out of date, unfortunately.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 [email protected] 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.
    <http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html>

* Amiga

**X ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/GNUtar-1.11.8.lha
    maintained by Enrico Forestieri <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    Based on tar 1.11.8, needs ixemul.library.

**X ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/gnutar.lha
    maintained by <[email protected]>

* 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 <[email protected]>
    This is not GNU tar, but a separate implementation.

**  maintained by William Bader <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    Based on tar 1.10.  Support for SCSI (via ASPI).

**X ftp://wuarchive (?)
    Several DOS version based on PDtar.  John Gilmore <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    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 <[email protected]>
    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, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  This file is part of GNU tar.

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  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, 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.

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  along with GNU tar; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
  the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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