Re: Use of tar-1.12.msdos.exe

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:05:11PM +1000, address@hidden wrote:
> from a W2K machine to an AIX machine. I fonud that some of the directory
> structures changed case.

you might try various builds of tar, preferably those meant for Windows,
not for MSDOS.  (I don't have much experience with them, sorry.)

Try these projects:
http://www.cygwin.com
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net

And prehaps also:
http://www.delorie.com

A hint: I think it's enough to try "tar tf tarfile.tar" on the Windows
machine to see the filenames stored in the tar, it's not necessary to
transfer the file to AIX.

Another idea: if tar fails, another possibility might be to use info-zip,
which can also be compiled on Unix hosts. (see www.info-zip.org)

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal