[MacPerl] URL for a tar program (was Re: URL for MacGzip)

[pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)]

Xah Lee wrote:

> The URL for MacGzip is at
> 
> http://persephone.cps.unizar.es/~spd/gzip/ 
> 
> I didn't find the program that useful. I find StuffIt Expander better.
> 
> StuffIt will also do the EOF character conversion on the fly when decompressing. (provided if I recall correctly). Also, StuffIt relies on some simple hueristic on file content for selecting a decompression method. (based on my experience)

OK thanks a lot.  I have MacGzip (and I have even found it useful on occasion:)
Apparently the Stuffit option was the program that I was looking for.
I have Stuffit Expander installed but apparently I will need to spend 
US$30.00 to install "Dropstuff with Expander Enhancer" because Stuffit 
alone would not unpack my tar file.  I wound up using Craig Ruff && John 
Gilmore's public domain tar to unpack the tar file I had.  It seems as though 
there is a freeware path and a shareware path for folks to follow on this 
problem with the freeware path requiring two separate programs and being a bit 
more tedious to follow (yes I am aware of the Archive::Tar module on CPAN but 
was concerned about the bootstrap problem, and I have not used it on a Mac 
(yet)).

For the record the tar program that I used was:

    http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/util/compression/tar4.0b.sit.hqx

Thanks again to Xah Lee and Jay Bedsole.

Peter Prymmer


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