Uncheck it if you want to choose the conversion to be performed rather than let suntar recognize the file format automatically

If you've changed your mind, or can't find where you've put that disk…

This is a semimodal dialog: it can be moved, and almost everything can be done while it's on the screen, but without closing it or pausing you can't bring the console window to front

Continue as List, but selection of Confirm saves returns to the current mode for further files

Temporarily save everything, but may return to Confirm saves later

This file will not be saved

This file will be saved

Files are opened in the usual way but the System doesn't perform the standard actions (that is, displaying the contents of the folder and resolving aliases), then suntar writes the folder with all its contents and resolves the alias if that option is set

Click here and files extracted by suntar will go in the folder which is currently displayed

Appends all the contents of a file in tar format, without any further file conversion

Use the mouse to select files. Doing that with the shift key pressed allows you to select nonadjacent files or to deselect one of the selected names

If no file need be extracted from this list…

Extracts all the selected files

It's not as powerful as the * in the UNIX shell, but if you wish to select files from a long list this button may be very useful

Suntar is working, wait !

View, Read tar, Read bar and Expert list are often repeated on next sector, file or disk: type cmd-N and that's done

Like List, but prints more informations and does not follow multivolume archives

Extract a single file whose bar header is at a known sector

Extract a single file whose tar header is at a known sector

Reads all sectors on the disk looking for tar or bar headers; may find good files which List can't see (on a crashed or partially overwritten disk). Since it tells about unreadable sectors, may be used as a Find bad sectors too

Prints informations about the floppy disk drives connected to your Mac

Transforms a non-Mac initialized disk to a Mac disk by performing the last step of initialization

Copies data from a file to the disk, with no header nor conversion

Copies sectors to a regular Mac file, without any conversion

Clears a sector: a null sector is the end-of-archive marker

Prints the contents of a sector in ASCII (and hexadecimal for non-ASCII bytes)

Transfers a tar archive from disk(s) to a Mac file without extracting

Use this when you want to extract some files, but not all, and you don't like the Confirm saves way to do that. When the selection dialog is on the screen, this brings it to front

Use these commands if you are an hacker or need a disk doctor. Beware: further data will be entered in UNIX style, from a prompt in the console window

Use this when you have completed your archive; anyway, you may add further files by the Append command

This adds files in the MacBinary format: no information is lost, but only a Macintosh with a MacBinary converter (e.g. suntar) may see it as usable data.

Use this to add a plain text file (not containing non-ASCII characters such as © or π)

Use this to add a file which is already in UNIX format

Select Create tar archive, Create bar archive or Append in order to use this menu

Now you are in write mode. Only write commands are enabled till you complete your archive

Check this item if you are an hacker or need a disk doctor which knows about tar and bar archives

Now, small files are examined: if they contain only ASCII characters they are saved as text files

Now, small files are not examined to see whether they are ASCII text and are saved as binary files

Check this if you want to choose files to be extracted

The current language is English

La lingua corrente è l'italiano, però i menù e gli altri fumetti di aiuto restano in inglese

Now, long lines wrap to the following line

Now you are in horizontal scroll mode

Use this to change the appearance of text and the behaviour of extractions

Use this menu to manipulate text in the console window

Blanks and initializes a disk, erasing its previous contents. Unlike what happens under the Finder, you may create 720 Kbytes disks

Open a disk as an empty bar archive and be ready to append files and folders to it

Open a disk as an empty tar archive and be ready to append files and folders to it

Add files to the end of an archive; for a  multivolume archive, you must insert only the last disk

The most useful and most used command, it extracts files from a tar or bar archive with automatic recognition and conversion of text, MacBinary and BinHex files

Select this if you want to know which files are in your tar or bar archive

Use this to eject the disk and close it. Cmd-shift-1 works, but it does not close the disk, use it only during pauses if you want to insert the disk back later

Opens a file in one of these formats: tar, bar, MacBinary, BinHex 4.0, UNIX-wise ASCII, PackIt.
In order to open floppy disks containing tar or bar archives, insert them in a drive, or select a command (e.g. List) when nothing is open

Use this menu to open files, extract or create UNIX archives, pause suntar or exit from it

This freeware program is the simplest and cheapest way to exchange data between a Macintosh and UNIX machines without sophisticated hardware: just use 3.5" floppy disks !