Star archiver

Version:

1.5.73

Release date:

Wednesday, 14 June, 2006

Categories:

Utilities: archivers and backup

License:

GPL

Interface:

PMShell

Italiano

Authors/Port authors:

Yuri Dario (Paperino)

Star is the fastest tar archiver for UNIX. The OS/2 port features full support for 64bit file I/O and ability to backup and restore OS/2 EAs. The included rexx scripts allow a rotation scheme for backups.

This software is distributed as compressed package. You have to download and manually install it; if prerequisites are required, you will have to manually install them too.

Manual installation

Program is distributed as ZIP package: download to temporary directory and unpack to destination folder: they can be placed everywhere. The main program is named star_fat.exe. See below for download link(s).

Following is a list of prerequisites that you have to manually install in order to have the program working:

kLIBC / GCC Runtime Library

You can install the prerequisites with rpm running the following string in a command line:

yum install libc libcx libgcc1 libssp libstdc++6 libstdc++ libsupc++6 libsupc++ libgcc-fwd

Following ones are the download links for manual installation:

Star archiver v. 1.5.73 (14/6/2006, Yuri Dario (Paperino))	Readme/What's new	Star 1.5.73 Star is the fastest tar archiver for UNIX =========================================== 14/May/2006 - Yuri Dario Contents -------- Star is the fastest tar archiver for UNIX. The OS/2 port features full support for 64bit file I/O and ability to backup and restore OS/2 EAs. The main program is named star_fat.exe, if you rename it to tar.exe (or gnutar.exe, ...) it will change his default behaviour (included are symlinks, but they will not work without proper setup/tools). History: -------- 1.5.73 first public release System requirements: -------------------- - eComStation 1.0,1.1,1.2 - OS/2 Warp - 32bit tcpip stack Installation ------------ Unzip the files on your disk: they can be placed everywhere. The included rexx scripts allow a rotation scheme for backups. Known problems -------------- - This kind of reports /xxx/xxx/xxx: invalid arguments means that the file was locked and it has been not possible to backup EAs. Support ------- Since this is a OpenSource freeware product there are no formal support options available. Donations --------- Since this software is ported for free, donations are welcome! you can use PayPal to donate me and support OS/2 developement. See my homepage for details, or ask :-) At least, a post card is welcome! =============================================================================== Yuri Dario http://www.os2power.com/yuri
hobbes.nmsu.edu/download/pub/os2/util/archiver/star-1.5.73-os2.zip