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Main advantages over other tar implementations: fifo - keeps the tape streaming. pattern matcher - for a convenient user interface sophisticated diff - user tailorable interface for comparing tar archives against file trees no namelen limitation - Pathnames up to 1024 Bytes may be archived. deals with all 3 times - stores/restores all 3 times of a file does not clobber files - more recent copies on disk will not be clobbered from tape automatic byte swap - star automatically detects swapped archives automatic format detect - automatically detects archive formats: Old tar, gnu tar, ansi tar, star. fully ansi compatible - Star is fully ANSI/Posix 1003.1 compatible.
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Star is the fastest known implementation of a tar archiver. Star
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development started 1982, development is still in progress. The
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current version is stable.
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Main advantages over other tar implementations:
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fifo - keeps the tape streaming.
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pattern matcher - for a convenient user interface
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sophisticated diff - user tailorable interface for comparing tar
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archives against file trees
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no namelen limitation - Pathnames up to 1024 Bytes may be archived.
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deals with all 3 times - stores/restores all 3 times of a file
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does not clobber files - more recent copies on disk will not be
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clobbered from tape
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automatic byte swap - star automatically detects swapped archives
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automatic format detect - automatically detects archive formats:
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Old tar, gnu tar, ansi tar, star.
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fully ansi compatible - Star is fully ANSI/Posix 1003.1 compatible.
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Author: Joerg Schilling <js@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Please mail bugs and suggestions to him.
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