While I was working on this, Paul Eggert started to published a few parallel tar releases on his own. As an attempt to avoid more confusion, I offered him to take it all, and Paul is now responsible of the thing. GNU ptx GNU ptx is a permuted indexer. It has now be integrated into GNU text utilities, and does not exist anymore as a separate distribution. Jim Meyering is now maintaining it.
GNU shar utilities have the purpose of sending multiple files safely over mail channels.
Ulrich Drepper is now maintaining them. GNU tar GNU tar archives file sets onto disk or tape. This program and its distrubution were later integrated into the Free paxutils , see above. Vos commentaires sont bienvenus.