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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Simple TAR question Post 81746 by reborg on Tuesday 23rd of August 2005 07:33:03 PM
Old 08-23-2005
Where is the tar question?

General comments are more suited to the Unix Lounge.

There are a large range of file achiving tools available in Unix/Linux all of which will do so more quickly than in windows because they don't have the overhead of opening a GUI.
 

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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86

macutil

MACUTIL(1)						      General Commands Manual							MACUTIL(1)

NAME

       macutil - A package that deals with MacIntosh files on a Unix system

DESCRIPTION

       macutil	is  a package that contains a number of utilities that deal with MacIntosh files on a Unix system.  It contains the following pro-
       grams:

       binhex Convert files to BinHex 4.0 compatible hexified form.

       frommac
	      Receives files from the MacIntosh on the Unix system.

       hexbin Convert hexified files to their MacIntosh format.

       macsave
	      Save a series of files from a MacBinary stream as individual files.

       macstream
	      Combine a series of files to a MacBinary stream.

       macunpack
	      Unpack a MacIntosh archive into its constituents.

       tomac  Transmits files from the Unix system to a MacIntosh.

BUGS

       This manual page is hopelessly incomplete!

SEE ALSO

       binhex(1), frommac(1), hexbin(1), macsave(1), macstream(1), macunpack(1), tomac(1)

AUTHOR

       Dik T. Winter, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (dik@cwi.nl)

3rd Berkeley Distribution					 October 22, 1992							MACUTIL(1)
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