file: README.Win32.txt	2008-09-10

This is a WIN32 port of the source tar-1.19.1-20071030.tar.gz,
from http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/

This is a WIN32 port of the source from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ -
04/14/2008 12:38PM      2,822,777 tar-1.20.tar.gz




tests:
--totals -wxvf c:\DTEMP\temp1.tar
--totals -xvf c:\DTEMP\temp2.tar
--totals -tvf c:\DTEMP\temp2.tar
-cf temp3.tar Data-Section-0.005	= FAILS
-cf temp3.tar Data-Section-0.005\*
-cf temp5.tar Sub-Install-0.924\*
--totals -xzvf temp7.tar.gz
--help

Report bugs to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
Report bugs to <ubuntu@geoffair.info>

Notes on MS compress/expand
===========================

Unfortunately MicroSoft has a pair of utilities, called
compress.exe and expand.exe,
versus the unix compress.exe, which uses -d to decompress ...

The unix (GNU WIN32 port of) compress.exe, uses the extension .Z,
hence in tar -Z will signal to use 'compress' as the compressor/
decompressor, and like gzip, given say test1.tar will produce
test1.tar.Z, and remove test1.tar ... and again like 'gzip',
will take the command -d test1.tar, find test1.tar.Z,
decompress it to test1.tar, and remove test1.tar.Z.

The MS compress.exe does not have a 'default' extent, but the USUAL
thing is to remove the last letter of the file extension, and replace
it with an undercore - like the command
C:\folder1> Compress text.txt c:\folder2 –r
will produce a file in the folder2 directory, and
the compressed file will be named: text.tx_

The underscore identifies the file as a compressed file.





