Hi I've built star, a POSIX 1003.1 compliant tar archiver and uploaded it to Hobbes
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/...
Stars homepage is
http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html
While star seems to run fine on OS/2 it is not extensively tested and it does not support Extended Attributes at this time
Dave Yeo
Source: OS2VOICE