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NAME: mtf
LANGUAGE: Icon
AUTHOR: Richard Goerwitz (goer@sophist.uchicago.edu)
PURPOSE: Maps 15+ char. filenames in a tar archive to 14 chars.
Handles both header blocks and the archive itself. Mtf is intended to
facilitate installation of tar'd archives on systems subject to a
14-character filename limit.
INSTALLATION: Cp Makefile.dist to Makefile and make. If all goes
well, and you have root priviledges, edit the Makefile to reflect
your local file structure, and make install.
USAGE: mtf inputfile [-r reportfile] [-e .extensions] [-x exceptions]
"Inputfile" is a tar archive. "Reportfile" is file containing a list
of files already mapped by mtf in a previous run (used to avoid
clashes with filenames in use outside the current archive). The -e
switch precedes a list of filename .extensions which mtf is supposed