liberte@uiucdcsb.CS.UIUC.EDU (01/16/86)
I am looking for a couple simple tar utilities. Perhaps these could be integrated into someones public domain tar. 1. I would like to extract specified files into files of my own name. This is particularly useful if the tar was created with full path names, but the directory structure has changed in the meantime. Tar wants to extract the file using the same pathname. A syntax might be: tar x oldfile1=newfile1 /full/path/oldfile2=newfile2 or switched around to conform to some mathematically intuitive standard. 2. I would like to append one tar file to another. A `tarcat` would do the job in general concatenating several tar files to one output tar file. However, I really need to append to an existing tar file in the case that it is really on tape so as to avoid rewriting the entire tape. Ideally, the tarcat or append function should compare block sizes and give an error or convert to the first block size. Dan LaLiberte liberte@uiucdcs.Uiuc.ARPA ihnp4!uiucdcs!liberte