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- TITLE: v14i007: tar, read and write tar archives (part 01/02)
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- Posting-number: Volume 14, Issue 007
- Submitted-by: dds@theseas.ntua.gr (Diomidis D. Spinellis)
- Archive-name: tar/part01
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- This program would be a lot more useful if it would allow dumping a
- tar file to multiple floppies. As it is unless you have a tape drive
- *and* a device driver for it, you will not be able to backup or restore
- more than will fit on one floppy. Pity the popular -k option couldn't
- have been added to change media every k bytes. Actually, as the
- documentation clearly indicates, trying to save to name a:xxx means file
- xxx on remote host a:. See the -f details in the man page.
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- Submitter dds@theseas.ntua.gr (Diomidis D. Spinellis) says:
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- This is an MS-DOS combined implementation of the un*x tar(1) and
- compress(1) programs. It creates P1003 "Unix Standard" [draft 6] tapes
- by default, and can optionaly compress and decompress files compatible
- with the un*x compress(1) program using up to 16 bits compression
- without intermediate files.
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- The main advantage of this program is the standard format of the files
- it deals with. The programs and file formats for compress and tar are
- widely available and files can be transfered directly to / from most
- un*x boxes.
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- The tar engine of the program is pdtar written by John Gilmore and was
- only slightly modified to fix some bugs and read / write compressed
- files on MS-DOS. The compression is based on the un*x compress program
- version 4.0. Many changes have been made to allow it to cooperate with
- tar, to improve its speed and to handle 16 bit compression efficiently
- on Intel architectures. The compress program was written and improved
- by Spencer W. Thomas, Jim McKie, Steve Davies, Ken Turkowski, James A.
- Woods and Joe Orost.
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- Diomidis D. Spinellis dds@doc.ic.ac.uk
- 1 Myrsinis Str.
- GR-145 62 Kifissia
- GREECE
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