Mike Yawn wrote:
> Generally, installing from a ZIP file will work better than a tar - the
> tarball is in GNU tar (gtar) format, which isn't available on MPE.

gtar is too available on MPE :-), and it untars the Ant stuff just fine.

Here's all you need to do to get gtar running:

diff -ruN tar-1.13/configure.mpe tar-1.13-mpe/configure.mpe
--- tar-1.13/configure.mpe      Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 1969
+++ tar-1.13-mpe/configure.mpe  Wed Apr 11 14:25:23 2001
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+AUTOCONF=1 \
+CPPFLAGS="-D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_SOCKET_SOURCE" \
+./configure --prefix=/BIXBY/PUB
diff -ruN tar-1.13/src/extract.c tar-1.13-mpe/src/extract.c
--- tar-1.13/src/extract.c      Fri Jul  2 15:24:36 1999
+++ tar-1.13-mpe/src/extract.c  Wed Apr 11 15:12:17 2001
@@ -542,8 +542,13 @@

      again_file:
        openflag = (keep_old_files_option ?
+#ifdef mpeix
+                 O_BINARY | O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL :
+                 O_BINARY | O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC)
+#else
                   O_BINARY | O_NDELAY | O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL :
                   O_BINARY | O_NDELAY | O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC)
+#endif
         | ((typeflag == GNUTYPE_SPARSE) ? 0 : O_APPEND);

        /* JK - The last | is a kludge to solve the problem the O_APPEND
diff -ruN tar-1.13/src/names.c tar-1.13-mpe/src/names.c
--- tar-1.13/src/names.c        Tue Jul  6 23:46:51 1999
+++ tar-1.13-mpe/src/names.c    Wed Apr 11 14:37:10 2001
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@

    if (!cached_gname[0] || gid != cached_gid)
      {
+#ifndef mpeix
        setgrent ();             /* FIXME: why?! */
+#endif
        group = getgrgid (gid);
        if (group)
         {
--
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