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- This documentation is a short description of how to extract ALL files
- from a unix tar file, list all files in a unix tar file and create your own
- unix compatible tar files on your ATARI ST.
-
- There are two programs in this collection. DTAR.TTP extracts ALL files
- from a tar file or lists the contents of a tar file. CTAR.TTP creates a tar
- file from the files or directories specified on the command line
-
- USAGE
-
- dtar [d] tarfile
-
- If d is specified the tar file contents are listed no extraction takes
- place. If the d option is not specified this program proceeds to extract all
- files in the tar file creating directories as necessary. This program requires
- the extension of tarfile to be TAR.
-
- ctar tarfile <files and/or directories to include>
-
- This program produces a unix compatible tar file from the files and
- or directories specified on the command line. If a directory is specified
- then the entire contents of that directory and its subdirectories are added.
- If a file is specified in a directory other than the current directory, it
- will be extracted into a directory with the same name as the specified directory
- in the tar file.
-
- EXAMPLE
-
- test is a directory contains files a1,a2 and directories b1,b2.
- b1 contains files c1,c2 and b2 contains files c1,c3 then
-
- ctar test.tar test
-
- will create a file containing all the files
- test\a1, test\a2, test\b1\c1, test\b1\c2, test\b2\c1, test\b2\c3.
-
- When these files are extracted the directories test, test\b1, test\b2
- will be created and the files will be placed in the appropriate
- directories, as they were originally. If these directories already
- exist the contents of the tar file will be appended to their current
- contents.
-
-
- Unix tar and unix compresss is a method of transmitting entire directory
- trees between two computers. Unix compress is contained in another arc file.
- Sources available in the archive tarsrc.arc
-