GNU_tar.1.12.1.README April 16, 1998 This archive contains an Installer.app package for GNU tar v1.12 (port #1), which has been patched to also support bzip2 compression. file: GNU_tar.1.12.1.NIHS.b.tar.gz sum: 10709 413 md5sum: a0b520f17e85ee0f88cbf54650b28396 probably to be placed at: http://www.peak.org/next/apps/unix/ ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/unix/ From the README: GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. It includes multivolume support, the ability to archive sparse files, automatic archive compression/decompression, remote archives and special features that allow `tar' to be used for incremental and full backups. This distribution also includes `rmt', the remote tape server. The `mt' tape drive control program is in the GNU `cpio' distribution. CREDITS GNU Software Archive ftp://ftp.gnu.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ bzip2 http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ Rex Dieter Computer System Manager Universtity of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Mathematics and Statistics http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/