From:     <PENSTONE@QUCDNEE1>
Subject:  tar reader
     
Greetings:
     
Here are the programs to read and/or convert Tar format files to
VMS.
        The program TAR2VMS.C reads from a /foreign tape, extracts
the files into a directory tree starting in the default directory
when the program is run. Directories will be created automatically.
For the simplest operation, just compile link, and RUN it; this
does the transfer automatically, as long as there are no strange
files on the tape.
        To get listings, you will have to define a foreign command:
$ command :== $directory:tar2vms
and then use the format: command [options]
     
        You should list the source file to get all of the hookers and
caveats from the comments.
     
        The program FILECON.C will convert a stream file (one written
by UNIX or a C program) with line-feed control into a conventional
vms text file with carriage control. It is useful if you had to run
TAR2VMS with the "s" option (copy files unconverted to disc) and then
are converting selected files manually.
     
        I hadn't planned on this program growing beyond a couple of
pages, but you know how these things grow...
     
     
Sid Penstone,
Queen's University,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L3N6
phone (613) 547-6935
     
BITNET: penstone@qucdn
        penstone@qucdnee1       (preferred after may 15)