This used to be the Software Download Center (SWDC) on the SAP Service Marketplace (SMP) but that was decommissioned in 2018.
To download SAP software, we need to navigate to Software Downloads on the SAP ONE Support Launchpad. Sapcar -xvf SAP Service Marketplace is being retired Tar was developed to bundle a number of files into a single Tape ARchive file (but works on disk too). Tar does not compress files and so it is often used together with zip to create a zipped tarball, which somewhat resembles our SAR files.Īs Linux and macOS are UNIX descendants, we find tar on these operating systems as well. SAPCAR only exists as command line tool, there is no graphical version, and the syntax resembles that of the UNIX TAR utility with -x for extract, -v for verbose (show me), and -f for file, to list a few common ones. 212876 – The new archiving tool SAPCAR (2000).The tools were not compatible, so for SAPCAR the extension SAR was chosen.
Older readers might remember when SAP introduced a new archiving tool to replace the previous CAR (Compressed ARchive) utility some two decades ago. This provides a few challenges on the latest macOS versions but nothing we can’t handle.Īny good? Post a comment, share on social media, and/or give a like. Files on SAP Software Downloads have the SAR extension. In this blog, we explain how to extract the SAP HANA client on macOS.
