[p4] p4tar/p4untar

[Albrecht, Matt]

If you ever find yourself in this situation again, a really great suite
of utilities is at
	http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
which contains native Win32 binaries of the common GNU tools, without
the need of the Cygwin install and DLL.
 

> -----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 11:25 PM
> To: 'Jeff Grills'; 'Stephen Vance'
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] p4tar/p4untar
> 
> Jeff,
> Don't get me wrong. They are GREAT tools. It's just that I 
> did not have
> these utilities installed. I changed the code locally to use windiff
> (instead of diff) and now this is up and running.
> 
> Thanks for writing these lovely utilities.
> Nikhil
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Grills [mailto:jgrills at drivensnow.org] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:03 PM
> To: 'Nikhil Singhal'; 'Stephen Vance'
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: RE: [p4] p4tar/p4untar
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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