RMS II
RMS Tar / RMS Untar Applications

RMS Tar / RMS Untar

• Introduction
• System Requirements
• Software Components
• Software Installation
• Software Setup
• Notes

Introduction

The RMS Tar and RMS Untar applications let you:

• Drag and drop files onto their icons to Compress / Expand the file data in .tgz compression format
• The .tgz format used is the built-in Apple Mac OS X format that supports resource forks
• This .tgz format is required by other RMS applications (e.g. RMS Server)

System Requirements

CPU:           Any PowerPC Macintosh or PowerBook
Memory Usage:  1MB
Disk Usage:    1MB + however much space is needed to store compressed/expanded data files
Network:       n/a
OS:            OS X 10.4 or later required in order to support resource forks

Software Components

• RMS Tar (v3.8)
• RMS Untar (v3.8)

Software Installation

1. Simply copy the application files to anywhere on your disk.

Software Setup

Notes

• Drag and drop onto the application icon to Tar-Gzip or Untar-Gzip
• Preserves resource forks
• Is compatible with the Mac OS X .tgz used by the RMS system; it may not be compatible with other generic .tgz utilities (like StuffIt Expander)
• RMS Tar can accept a single file or folder dragged onto it (multiple items do not work)
• RMS Untar can accept a single .tgz dropped onto it (multiple items do not work)