Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Archiver

This is a very old archiver, which is not recommended for adoption at new sites. Unless you're already using AR, ask tech-talk for what programs you should look at instead.

Documentation

The following documents are available. Textual links are to HTML documents, other formats are indicated by an icon link.

• Archive Retrieval Tool: Part I: arr User's Guide
  by Carl Timmer (02/95)
  [495 KB]  
• Archive Retrieval Tool: Part II: arr Programmer's Guide
  by Carl Timmer (02/95)
  [82 KB]  
• Archiver Reference Manual
  by Roger Cole (1/25/93-Draft)
  [510 KB]  
• AR and ARR User Information Manual
  by Roger Cole (10/90)
  [3.4 MB]  

Software Download

The following tar file contains source code only (no binaries), and was compressed using gnuzip.

• ar_20070703 (03 Jul 2007) R3.14 Makefiles
• ar_20020802 (5 Aug 2002)

Required Software

Ar requires that the Tk/Tcl, Motif and X11 header files and libraries be available and that the TK, TCL, X11, and MOTIF settings in CONFIG_SITE.<host_arch> be set correctly.

Since ar uses header files and/or libraries from the following extensions, it is necessary that they be downloaded and built first.

• ts