WinTAR - TAR (Tape ARchive) for Windows Version 1.5
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Copyright (c) 1994-95 SpiralCom Communications Inc.
All Rights Reserved.

This README file provides up-to-date information regarding WinTAR
Version 1.5 that may not be included in the help file.  Please read
the help file for detailed information about WinTAR Version 1.5.

********** System Requirement **********

+ A 386 or above IBM compatible PC with at least 4MB RAM and 2 MB free hard
  disk space.

+ Windows 3.1 or Windows for Workgroup 3.11.

+ Windows Sockets DLL (such as Trumpet Winsock or Microsoft TCP/IP)
  The Winsock DLL can be interfaced to an ethernet card or a modem (using SLIP,
  PPP, etc.) or whatever hardware interface that it supports.

+ For network backup/restore mode, UNIX workstations equipped with storage 
  devices such as tape drives and availability of services "remote exec" or 
  "remote shell".

********** File List **********

After unzipping this archive, you should receive the following files:

ctl3dv2.dll
licence.txt
readme.txt
wintar.exe
wintar.hlp
wintar.ini

********** Installation **********

Follow the instructions below for software installation:

1) Copy wintar.ini to your Windows installation directory, e.g. c:\windows
2) Move ctl3dv2.dll to your Windows installation directory under system\,
   e.g. c:\windows\system (Remember to remove ctl3dv2.dll from your WinTAR
   installation directory.)
3) Copy wintar.exe to a destination directory, e.g., c:\wintar
4) Make sure "winsock.dll" is in your DOS search path.

If you are using Windows for Workgroup, go to step 6.

5) In your config.sys, add a line "install=c:\dos\share.exe" if it is not
   already in your config.sys.

6) In your autoexec.bat, add the following line:
   set rshhost_dir=c:\etc
   set temp=c:\tmp     <== if it is not already in your autoexec.bat
   where c:\etc can be replaced by a directory containing a host database
   file "hosts".  For MS TCP/IP, you must copy the file "hosts.sam" in the
   windows directory to "hosts" in the same directory, and replace "c:\etc"
   by "c:\windows".
7) Add wintar.exe to an existing program group.
8) Exit Windows and reboot your machine (Ctrl-Alt-Del) if you need to carry
   out instruction # 5.  Otherwise, go to #9.
9) Double click on the WinTAR icon and run the program.

********** Change Log **********
WinTAR 1.5:

1.  Add extended DOS attributes such as HIDDEN and SYSTEM support.  These
    additions should not interfere with the generic "tar" format, and they
    are upward compatible with WinTAR 2.0, the 32-bit version of WinTAR.

2.  Many bug fixes.

WinTAR 1.4:

1.  For remote commands, you can now use %s or %d more than once in a command
    line.  For instance, some version of Unix does not have the rewoffl command
    in "mt" so to achieve the same result, you can use 
    mt -f %s rewind; mt -f %s offline

For registered copies only...

2.  All files in an archive can now be shown in the files/directories list
    box.  This provides a nice temporary solution to the final hierarchical
    display of the archive.  Please note that for this feature to work, you
    must install "share.exe" in your DOS system.  Also add "set temp=c:\tmp"
    in your autoexec.bat.  Please see installation instruction #5 and #6 for 
    more information.

WinTAR 1.3:

1.  Eliminated the "sharing violation" system error when trying to back 
    up files that are open for updating by other applications.

2.  Modified the definition of "Relative to Sub-directory" so that it
    is equivalent to "tar cvf - .".

3.  Added a "Force Disconnection" check box in the "Advanced" Remote
    setup.  Only check this box if your Windows socket does not disconnect
    gracefully upon exiting.  (PC-NFS 5.0 or below users must check this
    box.)

4.  When adding files/directories to the list to be archived, any duplicated
    entries are eliminated.

5.  The TAR archive uses the standard TAR tag for normal files instead of
    the old Unix-compatible tag.  The old Unix-compatible tag is used only
    if the "Use old V7 format" option is checked in the preference menu.  The
    user name is defaulted to "root" and the group is "wheel".

6.  The backup path options are now saved as part of the directory template.

7.  The log file now contains start and finish date/time for the archive
    and other information.

For registered copy only...

8.  Added "Full Path" backup option - drive letters are now included in the 
    archive so that a multi-partition hard disk or a PC containing several 
    hard disks can be backed up into one archive.  When restoring the archive, 
    the files/directories are restored to their original location in the hard 
    disk(s).  If an expected drive is not found, an alternative drive is 
    allowed.

9.  The user is allowed to "flatten" a directory structure, i.e. remove the
    directory associated with a file, when restoring a file.
    
WinTAR 1.2: 
First public release