[p4] p4tar/p4untar

[Jeff Grills]

I (the author of these tools) use them on both UNIX and windows all the
time.  In fact, multiplatform development was one of the primary reasons I
wrote these tools - I needed to compile and test my changes on multiple
platforms before submitting them to our source tree.  I use the cygwin suite
of tools (http://www.cygwin.com) to make them run under Windows (although I
use ActiveState perl instead of Cygwin's).  One could create a very stripped
down set of files from cygwin to make p4tar/p4untar work so that the entire
toolkit need not be installed.

I'd certainly take recommendations for replacements for these components of
the p4tar/p4untar tools, but they'd need to be more widely available than
what is there now.  My primary programming language isn't perl - I just use
it as a convenient cross-platform scripting language.  Perhaps perl has
something built in these days that would do the job, but I just don't know
about it.  If so, and someone pointed me in the right direction, I'm sure I
could figure it out and make these tools more portable.  I do like being
able to take apart a p4tar archive by hand and extract the bits I need, but
I'd sacrifice that for ease of use of the tools for Windows if necessary.

j

-----Original Message-----
From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
[mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Nikhil Singhal
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:03 PM
To: 'Stephen Vance'
Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
Subject: Re: [p4] p4tar/p4untar


Both these scripts assume UNIX platform (for example, tar, uname, diff). is
there a Windows version of these?