This freeware program is the simplest and cheapest way to exchange data between a Macintosh and an UNIX machine without sophisticated hardware: just use 3.5" floppy disks
Use this menu to open files, extract or create UNIX archives, pause suntar or exit from it
Use this if you have a file in tar or bar format. Floppy disks are opened by inserting them in the drive, or by selecting a command when nothing is open
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
Select this if you want to know which files are in your tar or bar archive
The most useful command, it extracts files from a tar or bar archive with automatic recognition and conversion of text, MacBinary and BinHex files
Add files to the end of an archive; for a multivolume archive, you must insert only the last disk
Open a disk as an empty tar archive and be ready to append files and folders to it
Open a disk as an empty bar archive and be ready to append files and folders to it
Blanks and initializes a disk, erasing its previous contents. Unlike what happens under the Finder, you may create 720 Kbytes disks
Use this menu to manipulate text in the console window
Use this to change the appearance of text and the behaviour of extractions
Now you are in horizontal scroll mode
Now, long lines wrap to the following line
La lingua corrente è l'italiano, però i menù e gli altri fumetti di aiuto restano in inglese
The current language is English
Check this if you want to choose files to be extracted
Now, small files are not examined to see whether they are ASCII text and are saved as binary files
Now, also small files are examined: if they contain only ASCII characters they are saved as text files
Check this item if you are an hacker or need a disk doctor which knows about tar and bar archives
Now you are in write mode. Only write commands are enabled till you complete your archive
Select Create tar archive, Create bar archive or Append in order to use this menu
Use this to add a file which is already in UNIX format
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 when you have completed your archive; anyway, you may add further files by the Append command
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