Creating TAR's in Windows

[Grizzly]

Does anyone know if/how you can create tarballs in Windows? Are there any util's that allow you to do this?

[The_Hitman]

Originally posted by Grizzly:
Does anyone know if/how you can create tarballs in Windows? Are there any util's that allow you to do this?

Here Griz:

http://helpdesk.uvic.ca/how-to/support/msdos/tar.html


or this:

ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/unix/tar320g.zip


[This message has been edited by The_Hitman (edited January 02, 2002).]

[Grizzly]

Thanks Hitman! I had a feeling you'd come through for me

[Grizzly]

Hmmmm, uno problemo.
Know of any which support file names beyond the MSDOS 8-3 format?

My files names need to be preserved, and they're almost all longer than 8 characters in name.

[The_Hitman]

Try the windows port of the GNU version of tar.

Its on this page..along with lots of other common GNU utilities such as grep, gcc,sed,awk,gzip etc ported to Windows..these can be very handy sometimes.
http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_204.htm

[This message has been edited by The_Hitman (edited January 03, 2002).]

[anfpunk]

winrar also does tar files. Well, it will extract them, I'm assuming you can set it to tar them up also.

Actually, scratch that. I think you can only create zip and rar. nevermind me.

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[This message has been edited by anfpunk (edited January 03, 2002).]

[Grizzly]

Yeah I already explored the WinRAR avenue WinZip can read Tar's too, but neither of them can make them. Hopefully the above links posted by Hitman will lead me to victory. Otherwise, I just might have to breakdown and install Linux on one of my machines, hah!

[RangerBFK]

why tar instead of rar?

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[Grizzly]

I'll try and keep this short:

-I made something.
-I want people to be able to download it.
-Most interested parties will be running Linux.

Thats what I want to compress it into a tarball

[RangerBFK]

Well if you are going to distribute to *nix users, that does make sense

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[Grizzly]

Wow...Hitman, great stuff man. That DJGPP link saved the day! I downloaded tar and gzip and they work wonderfully. Next time I have an extra couples hours I'll probably download a lot of those other util's I've always wished I had in Windows.

Thanks again Hitman.