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- Since I was asked to release it, here it is, my quick and dirty port of
- Gnu-tar 1.10. Since it works with my ixemul.library, it fully supports links,
- altough the recognition of hard links is currently not working, because of
- bugs/limitations in their current implementation in AmigaDOS.
-
- Since it was a quick port, I didn't bother to support compressed tars, this
- is something for a later version of the library that supports more process
- control stuff than the current one.
-
- I included one Amiga specific option, `-a' or `+amiga-perms', this includes
- the full protection long word of every file in the otherwise unused parts
- where Unix stores major/minor numbers for devices. Thus if you do
-
- cd DH0:
- tar ac .
-
- Then your DH0: partition if stored to `tape:r1000', the default tape device,
- that uses Matt's excellent tape-handler (which does a great job on double
- buffering tape access). The `a' option guarantees that all information about
- your files is stored to tape (file comments are discarded, but who uses them
- anyway ;-)). When doing
-
- tar atv
-
- You can see that instead of Unix permissions the Amiga permissions are
- displayed.
-
- Restoring is done similarly:
-
- cd DH0:
- tar ax
-
-
- I'm using this tar for own backups, and I don't use any options but the
- ones described. I'm pretty sure, there are still tons of bugs in the program,
- in options I never even tried, so be careful.
-
- I know particularly, that the program still has problems with device:
- notation, and wildcards operating on top of such devices. That's why I'm
- using
-
- tar ac .
-
- and not for example
-
- tar ac *
-
- As in the latter case the toplevel files can't magically be accessed.
-
-
- DON'T FORGET TO INSTALL THE ixemul.library, if you don't already have it
- installed from one of my previous distributions.
-
-
- This program is distributed under the GNU Copyright license, read all of it
- in the COPYING file that comes with this archive, read the README file for
- the original comments distributed with the Unix archive.
-
- -Markus Wild
-
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