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Subject: v24i077: Tool to salvage data from damaged tar tapes
Newsgroups: comp.sources.unix
Approved: rsalz@uunet.UU.NET
X-Checksum-Snefru: d94d3357 5075df9b f91b5436 4bc6db49
Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu
Posting-number: Volume 24, Issue 77
Archive-name: tarx
Tarx is a newer, cleaner, more versatile replacement for my old targ/tarl
programs for salvaging information from damaged tar tapes. It does a
better job on various details and has been extensively tidied up.
It uses a simplistic pattern-matching approach to identify tar header
blocks. It will cheerfully persist despite all sorts of bad things about
the archive (such as wrong checksums, read errors, and scraped-off
magnetic surface...), up to a maximum of "errlimit" hard errors in a row
It can be used to list the files, and extract as much of them as is
possible.
Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry