* README file for `tar/contrib/'.		-*- outline -*- (allout)

.* Hi, people!

   The `contrib/' directory of the `tar distribution contains a few
   miscellaneous tools, ports, or such things, which have been collected
   here and there, a bit randomly, for your possible entertainment or use.

   Beware that nothing here is supported by the `tar' maintainer, you
   might have to contact the authors directly to get support.  There is no
   guarantee that any file in this directory will still exist in subsequent
   releases.  Finally, there is no guarantee either that I will accept
   to include contributions, unless I find them very good or very small.
   But I'm quite willing to give URL pointers to other tools, right here!

.* Included files

   To the best of my knowledge, all included files are free, and already
   available widely by other means.  I did not collect any kind legalistic
   papers proving that the contained material is indeed free.  In case of
   a dispute, or at the mere request of the author, I'll quickly remove
   any dubious material.  So, do not consider the files here as being as
   *safe* as the things you usually get from the Free Software Foundation.

   Please drop me a note about what you found to be useful, in here,
   to help me at deciding what should be kept and what should go away.

. + gtar.1

    A better `man' page for tar.

    Rick P. C. Rodgers <rodgers@nlm.nih.gov>

. + src-makefile.go3
. + lib-makefile.go3
. + config.sta
. + config.go3

    Previous DOS port of version 1.11.8 for GO32, by Yasushi Suzudo.

.* External pointers

. + Amanda

    A fully featured and fairly speedy network parallel backup system,
    including automatic tape management, and sophisticated scheduling.

    ftp://ftp.amanda.org/pub/amanda/amanda-2.4.0b6.tar.gz
    James da Silva <jds@cs.umd.edu> (unsupported)
    Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
    amanda-announce@cs.umd.edu, amanda-announce-request@cs.umd.edu
    amanda-users@cs.umd.edu, amanda-users-request@cs.umd.edu
    amanda-hackers@cs.umd.edu, amanda-hackers-request@cs.umd.edu

. + afbackup

    An alternate backup system, able to split huge partitions onto many tapes
    and dump Solaris' ACLs.  Uses its own archiving format.

    http://www.muc.de/~af/software.html
    Albert Fluegel <af@muc.de>

. + star

    A `tar' rewrite, flexible and fast, especially while writing tapes.
    It is advertised as able to read and produce almost any `tar' format.

    ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star
    Joerg Schilling <js@cs.tu-berlin.de>

.* Existing `tar' ports and other micro-tars

   Please mailto:tar-bugs@iro.umontreal.ca if you are aware of various
   ports of GNU tar to 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.

. + Amiga

.  - ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/GNUtar-1.11.8.lha
     Maintained by Enrico Forestieri mailto:enrico@com.unipr.it.
     Based on tar 1.11.8.

.  - ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current/amiga-bin/tar-1.11.8-bin.lha
     Maintained by the ADE group mailto:fnf@fishpond.ninemoons.com.
     Based on tar 1.11.8, needs ixemul.library.

.  - ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/gnutar.lha
     uploaded by mailto:mscheler@wuarchive.wustl.edu.

. + DEC alpha (NT)

.  - ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip
     Maintained by Drew Bliss & Geoff Voelker.
     GNU tar for NT (intel and Alpha platforms).

. + DEC VAX (VMS)

.  - http://www.lp.se/free/vmstar/
     Maintained by Richard Levitte mailto:levitte@lp.se.
     This is not GNU tar, but a separate implementation.

.  - Maintained by William Bader mailto:william@nscs.fast.net.
     For V4.7.  Based on an old PDtar.  Requires compatible shared libraries
     to run V5 or V6 executables.

.  - within the DEC Shell, an alternate CLI from DEC trying to emulate Unix

. + IBM/PC (DV/X)

.  - ftp://qdeck.com/ (?)
     Maintained by David Ronis mailto:ronis@gibbs.chem.mcgill.ca.
     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)

.  - Look in the IBM/PC (Win32) section, for the DJGPP project.

.  - http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/
     http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish (Germany)
     ftp://ftp.simtel.net/simtelnet/gnu/gnuish
     ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish
     Maintained by Darrel Hankerson mailto:hankedr@mail.auburn.edu.
     You get many GNU tools, not only `tar'.  The GNUish project is described
     in `gnuish_t.htm'.
     Kai Uwe Rommel mailto:rommel@ars.de also made `gnutar.zip' in 1990.

.  - ftp://ftp.mcs.com/mcsnet.users/les/dos-gnutar/
     Maintained by Leslie Mikesell mailto:les@mcs.net.
     Based on tar 1.11.2.  Support for SCSI (via ASPI) and network (rsh over
     packet driver). No support for win95 long file names.

.  - ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at:pub/src/PCmisc/aspi-tar/*
     Maintained by Christoph Splittgerber mailto:chris@orion.sdata.de.
     Based on tar 1.10.  Support for SCSI (via ASPI).

.  - ftp://ftp.kiae.su:/msdos/arcers/tar3*.zip
     ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/tar320g.zip
     Maintained by Timur V. Shaporev mailto:tim@cronyx.ru.
     This is a `tar' rewrite.  Beta 3.21 is available.

.  - ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/mirrors/msdos/fileutl/ (?)
     Several DOS versions based on PDtar.  John Gilmore mailto:gnu@toad.com
     says he has copies of several vintages saved.

.  - 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

.  - ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.4/os2/archiver/tar.zip
     Based on PDtar.

.  - Look in the IBM/PC (OS/2) section, for `gtak'.

.  - Look in the IBM/PC (Win32) section, for `untgz'.

.  - http://people.darmstadt.netsurf.de/tst/tar.htm
     Maintained by Tillmann Steinbrecher mailto:tst@darmstadt.netsurf.de.
     This is not a `tar' port, but an index of them.

. + IBM/PC (Windows 3.1)

.  - ftp://ftp.mcs.com/mcsnet.users/les/win-gnutar/
     Maintained by Leslie Mikesell mailto:les@mcs.net.
     Support for network (rsh over winsock).  No support for win95 long
     file names.

.  - ftp://ftp.gamesdomain.ru/.1/os/windows/programr/tar.zip
     Based on GNU tar 1.11.2.

. + IBM/PC (OS/2)

.  - http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/archiver/gtar258.zip
     http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/archiver/gtak258.zip
     Maintained by Andreas Kaiser mailto:Andreas.Kaiser@stuttgart.netsurf.de
     or mailto:kaiser@ananke.stgt.sub.org.
     Version 2.58.  Based on tar 1.10.  The second archive contains SCSI
     drivers (DAT streamers notably) and rmt-type programs.

.  - Look in the IBM/PC (Win32) section, for `untgz'.

.  - GNUish? (see MSDOS above)
     Kai Uwe Rommel <rommel@ars.de> made a port in 1990, named `gnutar.zip'.

. + IBM/PC (Win32: Windows 95, NT 3.5 or NT 4.0)

.  - ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/tar112b.zip
     ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/tar112d.zip
     ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/tar112s.zip
     Maintained by Eli Zaretskii mailto:eliz@is.elta.co.il.
     Based on tar 1.11.2.  The DJ Delorie's project is described at
     http://www.delorie.com/djgpp, it contains many tools besides `tar'.

.  - ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/gnu-win32
     Maintained by Cygnus.
     Cygwin32 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.

.  - Look in the DEC alpha (NT) section.

.  - ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/untgz095.zip
     Maintained by Tillmann Steinbrecher mailto:tst@darmstadt.netsurf.de.
     The `untgz' program is a fast .tar or .tar.gz (.tgz) extractor.

. + Macintosh

.  - 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.
