Re: [MacPerl] How do you... solve the pathname problem?

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

On Sun, 23 Aug 98 22:43:50 PDT, Peter Prymmer wrote:

>
>[off topic]: BTW I just spent a good amount of time trying to scare up a
tar
>program for the Mac and only found a binary (and MrC?) at the UMich
archive
>that suited my needs, although doing the <LF>-><CR> translation appeared
to
>be an all files or none proposition.  I am wondering where might I have 

Does umich even get updated any more? Anyway, I can't give you URL's since
I'm on my Newton at the moment, but there's a searchable, up-to-date
Info-Mac archive at MIT. That and Versiontracker
<http://www.versiontracker.com> are the places I go to search for Mac
software.

>missed a newer version that employs binary vs text heuristic(s) to
extract
>text and bin files from an archive (something rumoured to exist out there
;-)?

Nothing like that, to my knowledge Stuffit Expander and maybe SunTar ask
Internet Config about whether a file is text or not, so in the end it
comes down to file extension So it's not reliable

>Since most of CPAN is .tar.gz I think that the MacPerl FAQ ought to
mention
>where to obtain the latest MacGzip and tar programs.  Sorry for the 
>cluelessness but I had to first find umich (It is not mentioned at apple
or
>ptf that I saw and I wound up using yahoo) then wade through a bunch of 
>Star Trek program listings to find 'tar'.

Chris. is the zlib/Codewarrior problem finally fixed in the latest zlib as
rumored? If so, maybe it's time to come up with a droplet to do tar.gz. As
for end-of-line conversion, I've always thought that's best done in a
second pass after the files have been extracted.

>
>
>Peter Prymmer
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