1Ports of GNU tar and other tars 2See the end of file for copying conditions. 3 4* Introduction 5 6 Most entries in this file are out of date, unfortunately. Such 7 entries are marked with an `X'. Run grep '^\*\*[^X]' PORTS to 8 extract valid entries. 9 10 Please write bug-tar@gnu.org if you are aware of various ports of GNU tar 11 to non-GNU and non-Unix systems not listed here, or for corrections. 12 Please provide the goal system, a complete and stable URL, the maintainer 13 name and address, the tar version used as a base, and your comments. 14 15* GNU/Linux and Unix 16 17** Star is a tape archiver similar to tar. 18 <http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html> 19 20* Amiga 21 22**X ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/GNUtar-1.11.8.lha 23 maintained by Enrico Forestieri <enrico@com.unipr.it> 24 Based on tar 1.11.8. 25 26**X ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current/amiga-bin/tar-1.11.8-bin.lha 27 maintained by the ADE group <fnf@fishpond.ninemoons.com> 28 Based on tar 1.11.8, needs ixemul.library. 29 30**X ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/gnutar.lha 31 maintained by <mscheler@wuarchive.wustl.edu> 32 33* DEC alpha (NT) 34 35**X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip 36 maintained by Drew Bliss & Geoff Voelker 37 38* DEC VAX (VMS) 39 40**X http://www.lp.se/free/vmstar/ 41 maintained by Richard Levitte <levitte@lp.se> 42 This is not GNU tar, but a separate implementation. 43 44** maintained by William Bader <william@nscs.fast.net> 45 For V4.7. Based on an old PDtar. Requires compatible shared libraries 46 to run V5 or V6 executables. 47 48* IBM/PC (DV/X) 49 50**X ftp://qdeck.com/ (?) 51 maintained by David Ronis <ronis@gibbs.chem.mcgill.ca> 52 For Desqview/X. Everything works besides compression. Copy of hacked 53 sources available, some of DV/X's programmer's library also needed. 54 55* IBM/PC (MSDOS) 56 57**X http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/ 58 http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish (Germany) 59 ftp://ftp.simtel.net/simtelnet/gnu 60 ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/gnuish 61 maintained by Darrel Hankerson <hankedr@mail.auburn.edu> 62 You get many GNU tools, not only `tar'. The GNUish project is described 63 in `gnuish_t.htm'. 64 65** The DJGPP development tools also include some `tar' utilities. 66 67**X ftp://ftp.mcs.com/mcsnet.users/les/dos-gnutar/ 68 maintained by Leslie Mikesell <les@mcs.net> 69 Based on tar 1.11.2. Support for SCSI (via ASPI) and network (rsh over 70 packet driver). No support for win95 long file names. 71 72**X ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/src/PCmisc/aspi-tar/* 73 maintained by Christoph Splittgerber <chris@orion.sdata.de> 74 Based on tar 1.10. Support for SCSI (via ASPI). 75 76**X ftp://wuarchive (?) 77 Several DOS version based on PDtar. John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> says 78 he has copies of several vintages saved. 79 80**X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.14/languages/ada/toolkit/msdos/gtar/gtar.exe 81 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.14/languages/ada/toolkit/msdos/gtar/gtar.taz 82 ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.14/languages/ada/toolkit/msdos/gtar/gtar.zip 83 84**X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.4/os2/archiver/tar.zip 85 Based on PDtar. 86 87**X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip 88 maintained by Drew Bliss & Geoff Voelker 89 GNU tar for NT (intel and Alpha platforms). 90 91** ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/untgz095.zip 92 maintained by Tillmann Steinbrecher <tst@darmstadt.netsurf.de> 93 The `untgz' program is a fast .tar or .tar.gz (.tgz) extractor. 94 95**X http://people.darmstadt.netsurf.de/tst/tar.htm 96 maintained by Tillmann Steinbrecher <tst@darmstadt.netsurf.de> 97 This is not a `tar' port, but an index of them. 98 99* IBM/PC (OS/2) 100 101**X http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/archiver/gtar254.zip 102 http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/archiver/gtak254.zip 103 maintained by Andreas Kaiser <Andreas.Kaiser@stuttgart.netsurf.de> 104 Version 2.54. Based on tar 1.10. The second archive contains SCSI 105 drivers (DAT streamers notably) and rmt-type programs. 106 107* IBM/PC (Win32: Windows 95, NT 3.5 or NT 4.0) 108 109**X ftp://ftp.cygnus.com:~ftp/pub/sac/win32/usersrc/* 110 maintained by Cygnus 111 GNU-Win32 B17.1 distribution. Download all files, `cat' them together, 112 and `untar' the result. You get many GNU tools, not only `tar'. 113 Based on tar 1.11.2. 114 115**X ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip 116 maintained by Drew Bliss & Geoff Voelker 117 GNU tar for NT (intel and Alpha platforms). 118 119** ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/untgz095.zip 120 maintained by Tillmann Steinbrecher <tst@darmstadt.netsurf.de> 121 The `untgz' program is a fast .tar or .tar.gz (.tgz) extractor. 122 123* IBM/PC (Windows 3.1) 124 125**X ftp://ftp.mcs.com/mcsnet.users/les/win-gnutar/ 126 maintained by Leslie Mikesell <les@mcs.net> 127 Support for network (rsh over winsock). No support for win95 long 128 file names. 129 130**X ftp://ftp.gamesdomain.ru/.1/os/windows/programr/tar.zip 131 Based on GNU tar 1.11.2. 132 133* Macintosh 134 135** Paulo Abreu (paulotex at yahoo dot com) did a 136 limited port of GNU tar to Darwin, with support for resource forks 137 and finder info, but this no longer seems to be available. 138 139** There is a tar in Stuffit Expander which is available many places and 140 comes with MacOS. It creates some spurious files but works on average. 141 142** There is an excellent GNU tar bundled in Tenon MachTen, but it does not 143 seem to be available separately. 144 145 146* Copyright notice 147 148 Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 149 150 This file is part of GNU tar. 151 152 GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 153 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 154 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 155 any later version. 156 157 GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 158 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 159 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 160 GNU General Public License for more details. 161 162 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 163 along with GNU tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to 164 the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, 165 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. 166 167 168Local Variables: 169mode: outline 170paragraph-separate: "[ ]*$" 171version-control: never 172End: 173