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User interface to the popular tar program in MS Windows. Click here to preview WinTAR's main screen. |
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Can read/write tar files on a local hard disk. |
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Can read/write tar archives directly on 3.5" 1.44MB floppy
diskettes. The disks can directly be read/written on a Sun workstation equipped with
3.5" floppy drives. |
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Supports templates for archiving directory list and for remote connection
parameters. |
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Supports GNU compatible volume header and long file name extensions (long
file name extension is only available in the 32-bit version.) |
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Command line arguments for scheduled backup purposes (32-bit only) ![[New]](/gif/new.gif) |
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Can create/open compressed or normal archive files on a remote hard disk. |
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Can create/open tar archives on any storage medium supported by your Unix/Linux
workstation. |
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Can manipulate your remote tape drive (eject, forward, rewind, and "end of
media") through icons similar to a cassette tape deck. |
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Supports selective archive extraction via an extract file list. (32-bit only) |
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Incremental backup (32-bit
only) |
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Byte swabbed tar archives
(32-bit only) |
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Available in 32-bit version only. (The 16-bit version is no longer supported, effective January 1, 2000.) |
WinTAR-SCSI has the following features. The icon
besides a feature means that it is a new feature as of Version
2.3.
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A new and improved user interface for the tar program using Windows 95/98
controls. Click here to preview
WinTAR-SCSI's main screen. (8K) ![[New]](/gif/new.gif) |
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Full support of double-byte character system such as Chinese and Japanese. Double-byte filenames and directory names are handled and
displayed properly in all list boxes in the corresponding language version of
Windows 95/98/2000/XP, and Windows NT. ![[New]](/gif/new.gif) |
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Read and write tar files on a local hard disk. |
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Read and write tar archives directly on 3.5" 1.44MB floppy
diskettes. The disks can directly be read/written on a Sun workstation equipped with
3.5" floppy drives. |
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Read and write tar archives on a tape in a SCSI tape drive (4mm, 8mm, QIC,
DLT) attached to your PC running Windows NT or Windows 95/98/2000/XP. |
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Control your SCSI tape drive (eject, forward, rewind, search, and
end-of-tape) through icons similar to a cassette tape deck. |
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Read and write a tape with multiple tar archives |
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Read and write multi-tape and multi-floppy tar archives |
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User-defined backup templates for common backup patterns |
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Support files up to 8GB - 1 byte within a tar archive on
tape. ![[New]](/gif/new.gif) |
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Import and export of the tar archive listing/index without reading the
tape content. |
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Selective archive extraction via selection from a list or an extract file
list. |
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Read and write tar archives in both POSIX 1003.1 and GNU extended tar formats. |
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Auto-detection/adaptation of tape parameters (if your tape drive supports
the feature). |
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Incremental/modified backup ![[New]](/gif/new.gif) |
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GNU compatible volume header and long file name extensions |
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Byte swapped tar archives used commonly from tapes created from SGI. |
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On-the-fly smart text conversion between DOS and Unix text files. |
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Tape drive's hardware compression. |
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Tape drive's fixed and variable block size in multiple of 512 bytes. |
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Support tape drive's different density codes for different tape formats |
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Supports selection of a tape drive from more than one tape drives in your
PC. |
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Support fast block search for SCSI-2 tape drives when
reading archive content and extracting selected files.
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True 32-bit multi-threaded operations. |
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Command line arguments for scheduled backup purposes. |
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Context-sensitive help on most buttons and data entry fields |
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SCSI tape drive diagnostic dumps |