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- Subject: v24i077: Tool to salvage data from damaged tar tapes
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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu
- Posting-number: Volume 24, Issue 77
- Archive-name: tarx
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- 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.
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- 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
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- It can be used to list the files, and extract as much of them as is
- possible.
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- Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
- henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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