Subject: Re: OT: tar compatible winsoftware
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 01/03/2002 08:19:31
On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> >
> > > anyone know such thing like tar for windows?
> > > i need it for SCSI DAT tape.
> >
> > I hope you're not asking here for a driver for your tape drive. :-)
> 
> somewhat...
> 
> > WinZip can open tar and gzipped tar files. (The URL is obvious.) The
> 
> yes but can it drive SCSI tape?
> 
> 
> i just want program for windows doing thing like that:
> 
> tar -bblocksize -cvf /dev/rst0 <filelist>
> 

It looks like it should work under the latest releases of cygwin:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2000-04/msg00269.html

Also, there appears to be something called "nttar"

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amanda-win32/

diana