SAPCAR all in all:
SAPCAR (more established adaptation was called CAR) is a pack utility (like winzip, tar, compress, gz, and so forth.) , that is utilized by SAP to pack and decompress about all conveyed records and executables.
On Windows Operating Systems, the executables are called SAPCAR.EXE and CAR.EXE.
The compacted documents are having the expansion ".CAR" or ".SAR".
This utility scopes up to 90-95% pressure proportion like Winzip for content documents - paired records are not packed that great, as this is simply impractical. In this way, it is not valuable to pack
.CAR or .SAR documents with Winzip, in light of the fact that you would no more advantage with contracting down in the size.
SAPCAR and CAR are both summon line based devices. The linguistic structure is like the in the unix enviroment utilized TAR utility (tar - xvf ...). There does not exist a graphical interface as used to from WinZip.
SAPCAR (more established adaptation was called CAR) is a pack utility (like winzip, tar, compress, gz, and so forth.) , that is utilized by SAP to pack and decompress about all conveyed records and executables.
On Windows Operating Systems, the executables are called SAPCAR.EXE and CAR.EXE.
The compacted documents are having the expansion ".CAR" or ".SAR".
This utility scopes up to 90-95% pressure proportion like Winzip for content documents - paired records are not packed that great, as this is simply impractical. In this way, it is not valuable to pack
.CAR or .SAR documents with Winzip, in light of the fact that you would no more advantage with contracting down in the size.
SAPCAR and CAR are both summon line based devices. The linguistic structure is like the in the unix enviroment utilized TAR utility (tar - xvf ...). There does not exist a graphical interface as used to from WinZip.
How to list the contents of CAR and SAR Files ?
- Go to the directory where you want to list the contents via the "cd" command - SAPCAR -tvsf(or car -tvsf ) On AS/400: SAPCAR '-tvsf ' - Then the complete contents of the file is listed on the screen. - If you want further detailed information, have a look in the SAPCAR online help below.
How to extract (decompressing) CAR and SAR Files ?
- Go to the directory where you want to decompress via the "cd" command - SAPCAR -xvf(or car -xvf ) On AS/400: SAPCAR '-xvf ' - Then all files and directories, that are stored in this archive, become decompressed. - If you want further detailed information, have a look in the SAPCAR online help below.
How to compress files to CAR or SAR Files ?
- Go to the directory where you want to compress via the "cd" command - SAPCAR -cvf(or * for all) (or car -cvf ) On AS/400: SAPCAR '-cvf ' - Then this one file or all of the current directory becomes stored to this archive - If you want further detailed information, have a look in the
SAPCAR online help below.
