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-Star is the fastest known implementation of a tar archiver. Star
-development started 1982, development is still in progress. The
-current version is stable.
-
-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.
-
-Author: Joerg Schilling <js@cs.tu-berlin.de>
-Please mail bugs and suggestions to him.