>From: cruff@niwot.scd.ucar.EDU (Craig Ruff)
>
>>   now: who is going to port gtar to the mac? :)
>> 
>> There is already a public domain tar for the Mac, should be available
>> in the info-mac archives on sumex-aim (and the mirror on wuarchive).
>> It is based on John Gilmore's public domain tar, which I think was
>> also the source material for GNU tar.
>
>Indeed, I am the author.  I am just now finishing up an upgrade that
>will understand SCSI tapes.  I am doing some more testing with various
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>drives.  For those not familiar with Macintosh tar, it is a MacOS port
>of John Gilmore's tar program.  It is pretty basic, and doesn't understand
>Mac resource forks.  I've also got a start at a command file parser that
>would allow more automated operation.
>

All right!  That's something I've been waiting for for a long time. :^)

~Steve


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