XTar - XTar pulldown menu


The main menu has six options for operations on the tar file as a whole. Most of these are self-explanatory; however...

Open..., open another tar archive. A standard Motif file selection box is displayed and you are prompted to choose a new file. The directories in the file selection box are refreshed each time it is displayed.

Unpack, unpacks the entire tar archive. The actual files are extracted in the same directory as the tar archive itself. This should probably unpack into the current directory.

Unpack as... allows you to choose where to unpack the tar archive. Again, a Motif file selection box is displayed and you are prompted to choose a directory to extract the files into. If you type the name of a directory that does not exist, then the directory is created before extracting the files.

Search... opens a prompt dialog and requests a regular expression to match against a filename in the archive. This option can also be selected by pressing the '/' key, with the cursor in the file list.

Next, searches for the next occurence of the previous regular expression. This can also be achieved by pressing the 'n' key.

Convert UID/GID, is useful if the tar file was created on your machine. It converts the user and group numbers into their corresponding names on your system.

Quit, closes the application down.


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