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- LAR 1 LAR C u .TH LAR linus
- .SH NAME
- LAR \- CP/M lu compatible file archiver
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B lar
- key library [ file ... ]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- Lar is a Unix program to manipulate CP/M LU format libraries.
- The primary use of lar is to combine several
- files together for upload/download to a personal computer.
- Its actions are controlled by the
- .I key\^
- argument.
- The
- .I key\^
- is a string of characters containing
- at most one function letter and possibly
- one or more function modifiers.
- Other arguments to the command are
- .I files\^
- specifying which files are to be dumped or restored.
- .PP
- The function portion of
- the key is specified by one of the following letters:
- .PP
- .PD 0
- .TP 8
- .B u
- The named
- .I files\^
- are added to the library.
- .TP
- .B e
- The named
- .I files\^
- are extracted from the tape.
- .TP
- .B p
- Print files in library.
- .TP
- .B d
- Delete files in library.
- .TP
- .B r
- Reorganize library.
- .TP
- .B t
- The names of the specified files are listed each time that they occur
- on the library.
- If no
- .I files\^
- argument is given,
- all the names
- on the tape are listed.
- .PD
- .PP
- The following characters may be used in addition to the letter
- that selects the desired function:
- .PP
- .PD 0
- .TP 8
- .TP
- .B v
- Normally,
- .I Lar\^
- does its work silently.
- The
- .B v
- (verbose)
- option causes it to type the name of each file it treats,
- preceded by the function letter.
- With the
- .B t
- function,
- .B v
- gives more information about the
- library entries than just the name.
- .SH DIAGNOSTICS
- Invoking lar without arguments prints a help message.
- .SH AUTHOR
- The original CP/M library program LU is the product of Gary P. Novosielski.
- Unix version by Stephen Hemminger, Mitre Corp. Bedford MA.
- .SH BUGS
- Pathnames are stored in CP/M format (XXXXXXXX.XXX).
- .br
- Lar tries to detect
- text files vs. binaries by checking for non-Ascii (8th bit set) chars.
- If the file is text lar will throw away Control-Z chars which
- CP/M puts on the end.
- All files in the library are padded with Control-Z
- up to the end to the CP/M sector size if necessary.
- No effort is made to handle the difference between CP/M and Unix
- end of line chars.
- CP/M uses Cr/Lf and Unix just uses Lf.
- .SH SEE ALSO
- comhex(1), chek(1), cpmcat(1), crck(1), mkbin(1), sum(1), wc(1).
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