Did you know Windows includes the tar program?
Daniel Nashed – 1 December 2023 07:12:57
The Domino Language packs are coming in tar format. And I was looking for a way to automatically extract the InstallAnywhere installer for Windows.
It turns out that Microsoft added tar along with other tools like curl.
I did know about curl, but I missed tar. Which can be quite helpful if you don't have 7Zip installed.
The implementation they are shipping is bsdtar (https://libarchive.org/).
It supports to read and write compressed archives with the "z" option.
In the help you see where tar is coming from. It's a pretty old tool coming from the tape area ..
But it is still the standard tool on Linux to pack files.
And it is by the way also supported by Borg Backup https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/tar.html.
You will hear more about this soon, because I am working on a native Domino Backup Borg integration leveraging this new Borg Backup option.
-- Daniel
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