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- From: michael@stb.UUCP (Michael)
-
- Actually, Tar CAN handle links properly, with the present file format.
-
- There are two types of input to tar (generally): Regular files, which can
- be seek'd to the proper place, and special files which cannot be seek'd.
- They can, however, be close(); open() 'd, which does a rewind on any device
- that I'm familiar with.
- Presto, you've just seeked to the beginning, now you can skip as much as you
- need to get to the file.
-
- The only thing this won't work with is pipes; the only thing I can think
- of using pipes with tar are copying directories (in which case selective
- retrieval isn't needed) and compressed archives (you're out of luck).
- --
- : Michael Gersten seismo!scgvaxd!stb!michael
- : Ground floor, comming up -- 1-3-7
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 76
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