Re: *.tar

["Steven M. Belknap" <sbelknap@UIC.EDU>]

>This kind of file is a Unix archive, and you need an emulation of the Unix
>tar command to break it out.  In the Unix world, what we in the PC/Mac worlds
>do with one command (zip), the Unix world takes two steps "tar" to collect the
>files into one file, and then compress/gzip to compress it.
>
>You can probably find a "tar" utility somewhere on thhe net if you look.
>I have a pc version, but you presumably want a Mac version.
>

Bingo. I like the new designation for a doubly encoded file on the ftp
archive. .tar.gz  This is clearer.

Macintosh tools for mucking about with decompressions/compressions can be
found @ www.matisse.net/files/formats.html

This points to wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/mac
where tar 3.0 for the mac os 7.0 and higher can be found. Just in case any
other Macintoshers need these things. Incidently, there is a pretty good
Unix like animal called CLImate from Orchard Software Box 380814 Cambridge
MA 02238-0814 voice 617/876-4608 which allows macs to do command line
interface things rather nicely. Just the thing for greps, etc.

NetScape reads the individual files just fine. Is there a way to build an
index file so the behavior is the same as the http page? (Not really
important, but just curious. Haven't played around with html much, except
to adjust someone else's code.)

Thanks to Phillip Pfaffman, lojbab & Richard Kennaway for helpful hints.
Might be a good idea to post some of this info somewhere for future
non-Unix people stumbling around in the dark

-Steven


Steven M. Belknap, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria

email: sbelknap@uic.edu
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