Craig A. Berry wrote:
At 9:49 AM +0200 9/4/07, demerphq wrote:
I was wondering, are POSIX compliant tar readers commonplace on VMS
these days? Specifically if you pack a directory tree using
Archive::Tar will the commonplace readers extract it properly? Winzip
for instance is not POSIX aware and unpacks them into a single flat
directory.
vmstar, the most commonly used tar reader on VMS for many years, does
preserve directory trees. There is also a port of GNU tar around,
which I assume does the same things it does elsewhere.
GNU tar is shipped with the GNV kit as gnutar, The program named tar
shipped with GNV is actually a copy of vmstar.
VMSTAR is ancient and can not handle many of the current tarballs.
Although I have seen some comp.os.vms postings that maybe someone is
looking at improving that.
In GNV, I had to do the following:
Rename tar to vmstar. And then set aliases from gnutar to tar. I have
suggested that the GNV maintainer make that the way the kit installs.
I have not looked at the source code for either yet.
The GNV GNU tar will invoke gzip if requested to gunzip a file before it
is unpacked.
The current GNV kit could probably handle running the Perl configure
shell script. I have been curious for a while if it would produce
different results than configure.com, but have not had the time to
actually run it.
-John
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