Short:    friendly ami tar frontend
Author:   lorylombus@gmail.com (Lorence Lombardo)
Uploader: lorylombus@gmail.com (Lorence Lombardo)
Type:     util/arc
Version:  1.8d
Architecture: m68k-amigaos


Warning...!!!

Although I have found this program to work very well on my personal system
ultimately if you decide to use it you do so at your own risk.


tara  NG v1.8d  (c) 2018-2024  Lorence Lombardo.

WTF is tara ?

"tara" attempts to act as a friendlier CLI frontend for the tar archiver 
on 68k Amiga OS and if it works well on PPC Amiga OS also well thats
just a bonus.

Why the NG ?

The NG is for Next Generation because this tara is working with bsdtar
instead of GNU tar and is currently considered to be the successor of the
previous tara on 68k. So for the time being I have renamed the previous
tara to "tara_ol" in place of this tara.


Usage is as follows:-

tara <command> <archive.tar[.comp]> [file(s)/dir(s)...]

 Commands:- 

  l  List file(s)/dir(s)
  x  Extract file(s)/dir(s)
  a  Add file(s)/dir(s)
  t  Test archive


"tara's" (de)compression is activated automatically by the appropriate
extension as defined in "PROGDIR:tara_comp.cfg".   

Compatible (de)compression programs can be added to
"PROGDIR:tara_comp.cfg".

In the cases of Testing and Listing tara NG will require the "APIPE:"
device if the file is compressed.

"tara" uses the stack which is provided by the environment and uses the
"c:" assign to find related programs.

When testing archives tara will utilize "c:stderr" if available.

Alternative extensions of ".tar" are ".cpio", ".pax" and ".shar".

If you are looking for configuration ideas, I have configured tara in
"DiskMaster 2.5.30a" as follows:-

AddMenu Archives, tara Add, StdIO "CON:0/12/640/100/Tar Add Window";Archive "c:execute cc:DM_tara ";StdIO CLOSE
AddMenu Archives, tara list, Extern stack 500000 \CC:tara >t:tara_list l %s;read t:tara_list ;delete t:tara_list
AddAutoCmd ,#?.tar.#?, StdIO "CON:0/12/640/100/Extract Window";Extern cd %d \stack 500000 \cc:tara x %s;StdIO CLOSE
AddAutoCmd ,#?.tgz, StdIO "CON:0/12/640/100/Extract Window";Extern cd %d \stack 500000 \cc:tara x %s;StdIO CLOSE


Installation:-

Select the bsdtar build which is most suited for your system from
"libarc_tools_68k.lha" and place it in your c: assign.

If you do not already have APIPE: its available from here:-

http://aminet.net/package/util/shell/APipe_37_7


NB:  The testing and listing of shar's is a little different.


web page:-

http://geocities.ws/lorylomb/