Has anyone tried the msdos gnutar available straight from gnu.org? (for example, here: ftp://ftp.uu.net/archive/systems/gnu/tar/)

I downloaded the tar-1.12.msdos.exe, copied it to \winnt\tar.exe, and was able to (apparently) delete a file and replace it with something else, all while (again, apparently) retaining the proper node numbers in /dev. (I don't actually have a receiver.arf file with me at work, I just created a test file with some simple nodes on a unix box).

Anyone tried it? Can anyone verify that it works? (since all my units are served by a linux server, I'm sort of skipping over the whole .arf thing entirely... )


-david.