GNU tar version 1.10
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GNU Tar 1.10 Port for the Atari ST with MiNT (and without)
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Well, I decided it was time I had a full fledged TAR that could handle 
compressed archives rather than uncompressing and then untaring. So, I got
the latest version of GNU Tar I could, which is v1.10, and started to port it
to the Atari. 

I essentially use this program with MiNT, as MiNT provides all the facilities
neccessary for me to use this program successfully. Supporting pipes are
essential for the compress/uncompress function of GNU Tar to work, otherwise
all the other functions should work under standard TOS.

Included in the binaries part of the this port is also my own compiled version
of compress v4.0. All other versions of compress that I found opened the
stdin/stdout functions in ASCII mode rather than binary and confused GNU Tar
when using compressed archives. The one included has been tested to great
length and shouldn't cause any problems, just make sure that its in your 
default PATH statement in your environment.

This version has been compiled with GNU GCC v1.40 and the MiNT libraries at
patchlevel 14. To take full advantage of GNU Tar, use MiNT v0.9, which has
the ability to support symbolic links within the kernel.

I must pass a lot of credit onto Eric Smith for all the work he has put into
making MiNT, for which without this and the libraries, this port would have
been so much harder to do.

All I can say is it works for me, so share and enjoy.

Please also read the BUGS and COPYING files. 

Alan Hourihane
email: alanh@logitek.co.uk
02/10/91