-* Ports of GNU tar and other micro-tars -*- outline -*-
+* Ports of GNU tar and other tars -*- outline -*-
- Please write tar-bugs@gnu.ai.mit.edu if you are aware of various ports
- of GNU tar to non-Unix systems not listed here, or for corrections.
+ Many entries in this file are out of date, unfortunately.
+ Please write bug-tar@gnu.org if you are aware of various ports of GNU tar
+ to non-GNU and 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.
+.* Copyright notice
+
+ Copyright (C) 1999, 2001, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This file is part of GNU tar.
+
+ GNU tar is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+ any later version.
+
+ GNU tar is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with GNU tar; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
+ the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+ Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+.* GNU/Linux and Unix
+
+. + Star is a tape archiver similar to tar.
+ <http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html>
+
.* Amiga
. + ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/systems/amiga/aminet/util/arc/GNUtar-1.11.8.lha
maintained by Enrico Forestieri <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
+. + [This link seems to be dead:]
+ ftp://ftp.ninemoons.com/pub/ade/current/amiga-bin/tar-1.11.8-bin.lha
maintained by the ADE group <fnf@fishpond.ninemoons.com>
Based on tar 1.11.8, needs ixemul.library.
.* DEC alpha (NT)
-. + ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip
+. + [This link seems to be dead:]
+ ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/.20/windows/archiver/tar.zip
maintained by Drew Bliss & Geoff Voelker
.* DEC VAX (VMS)
-. + http://www.lp.se/free/vmstar/
+. + [This link seems to be dead:]
+ http://www.lp.se/free/vmstar/
maintained by Richard Levitte <levitte@lp.se>
This is not GNU tar, but a separate implementation.
.* Macintosh
+. + Paulo Abreu (paulotex at yahoo dot com) did a
+ limited port of GNU tar to Darwin, with support for resource forks
+ and finder info, but this no longer seems to be available.
+
. + 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.