ucbked@athena.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) (09/16/90)
I will shortly be returning to England and in so doing lose my net
link. Before I fade into the sunrise I thought I might offer [k]tar to
readers of this group. [k]tar is an adaptation of an (very) early
version of GNU tar. It has all the usual tar options (except w) and a
number of (in my opinion) "enhancements" that should be of special
interest two groups: (a) those moving files between DOS and **IX
systems and (b) those downloading tar.Z archives from various ftp
sites.
If you want sources and DOS executable, send e-mail to my domestic US
e-mail address, preferably with a return address of the form x@a.b.c.
The following, from the [k]tar help screen, may spike (or kill) your
interest in the programme.
Caveat: [k]tar has NOT been tested with tapes. Anyone want to give me
a tape drive?
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ktar [options] [name(s)]
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-A allow absolute names (leading /)
-c create archive
-C name change to named directory
-E estimate number of floppies needed
-f name archive or extract from named file
-F name files to archive or extract from named file
-g generate a uniq name for every file
-G extract older files under name xxxxxxxx.nnn
where nnn is a generation number
-h hint (info) function
-j report time data and exit
-Jstring change times according to string
[-]00h00m0s
-k n archive device has n kilo-bytes capacity
-K capitalize directory portion of path names
-m do NOT restore original modification times
-N do NOT extract if the local file is newer than
the archive file
-n not a tape or pipe (can seek)
implied by k or [0-9] options
-p restore original permissions (otherwise set from
umask variable)
-Pnn strip n parts of the path name for extraction or
listing
-Pnn:str preface the stripped path with a new path defined
by string
-Q pause before first floppy
-R recovery mode, skip bad headers
-T no time conversions
-t table of contents
-v switch.verbose description of files
-x extract archive
-Z remove (unlink) each file as it is added to the
archive [dangerous, use at your own risk]
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EXAMPLES (X = Xenix, D = MSDOS)
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X ktar -cvf /dev/fd096ds9 -k 720 .
archive all files in the current directory and
its subdirectories to a 720 k floppy
X ktar -cvf /dev/fd096ds9 -k 720 -F filelist.log
archive all files named in the file 'filelist.log'
to a 720 k floppy
D ktar -xvf a: -k 720
extract all files from the 720 k archive using
drive a:
D ktar -xvf a: -k 720 -F filelist.log
extract only the files name in filelist.log
D ktar -xvf a: -k 720 a.c b.c c.c
extract only the files named a.c b.c c.c
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COPYRIGHT
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*
* This program contains code released to the Public
* Domain by John Gilmore. Other portions (c) 1988/1989 by
* Earl H. Kinmonth, History Department, University of
* California, Davis, California, 95616.
*
* All rights reserved! All liability denied!
*
* Free use and copying of all or part of this program is
* permitted and encouraged, provided
*
* - no charges other than the cost of reproduction are levied
* - the program or portions of it are not used to further
* CLASSIFIED military research.
*
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