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- NAME
- xadUnTar 1.7
-
- SYNOPSIS
- xadUnTar FROM/A,DEST=DESTDIR,PASSWORD/K,FILE/M,NAMESIZE/K/N,
- FFS=OFS/S,SFS/S,INFO=LIST/S,Q=QUIET/S,AM=ASKMAKEDIR/S,
- OW=OVERWRITE/S,NA=NOABS/S,ND=NODATE/S,NE=NOEXTERN/S,
- NKP=NOKILLPART/S,NP=NOPROT/S,NT=NOTREE/S,SHORTNAME/S
-
- DESCRIPTION
- xadUnTar is a shell tool to extract data from Tar archives and
- compressed Tar archives. This includes .tar.bz, .tar.bz2,
- .tar.gz, .tar.Z, .tar and others.
-
- FROM specifies the file archive that should be handled.
- DESTDIR is the destination directory. The directory is created
- when it does not exist (except if ASKMAKEDIR is turned on and
- you select no). There are some dangerous archives using absolute
- path names (e.g. starting with LIBS: or RAM:). xadUnTar archives
- these files to their absolute position (except NOTREE or NOABS is
- used).
-
- PASSWORD can be used to supply a password for unarchiving of
- encrypted archives. This argument requires the keyword PASSWORD.
-
- FILE allows you to select filename(s) (including patterns), which
- should be extracted. When FILE is not given, all files are
- extracted. With FILE only matching files are extracted.
- NOTE: When you do not use NOTREE keyword, the patterns check
- includes checks for directory structure as well.
-
- NAMESIZE allows to specify the maximum size of a filename. This is
- useful as some archives from unix machines have longer filenames
- than the Amiga filesystem allows. Whenever a name is longer than
- the namesize value, you are asked to enter a shorter name. Names
- of directories are truncated without requests.
- FFS or OFS replace NAMESIZE argument and provide a standard length
- of 30 characters, which is the value of our standard file system.
- SFS provide a length of 100 characters, the SmartFilesystem
- standard.
-
- NOEXTERN prohibits the use of external clients for
- recognition purposes.
-
- INFO or LIST prints information about the archive and does not
- do any unarchiving.
-
- OVERWRITE forces the program to overwrite an already existing
- destination file. Normally you are asked about that.
-
- NOTREE skips all directory names and writes the files directly to
- destination directory.
-
- SHORTNAME reduces the name display for INFO and extract to the
- filename.
-
- ASKMAKEDIR forces the program to ask you, if a missing directory
- should be created.
-
- NOPROT prevents setting file protection bits and NODATE prevents
- setting date information.
-
- NOABS prevents creation of absolute path names.
-
- If you specify NOKILLPART keyword, partial or corrupt output files
- no longer are deleted.
-
- The QUIET option turns off the progress report, but also disables
- questions to skip, rename or overwrite files.
-
- EXAMPLES
- Shell> xadUnTar archive.tar RAM:
- Unarchive the tar archive to RAM:
-
- Shell> xadUnTar archive.tar.gz RAM: #?.txt #?.doc Contents
- Unarchive all .txt and .doc file and the file "Contents" of
- gzipped tar archive to RAM:
-
- Shell> xadUnTar archive.tar.bz LIST
- Tells information about archive.tar.bz file.
-
- HISTORY
- xadUnTar 1.7
- - added support for pipes and devices
-
- xadUnTar 1.6
- - added support for second longname extension type
-
- xadunTar 1.5
- - listing links works now as expected
-
- xadUntar 1.4
- - bug fixes
- - added support for name extension block types
- - added SHORTNAME option
-
- xadUnTar 1.3
- - plain tar archives are handled faster now
-
- xadUnTar 1.2
- - handles empty files correct now
-
- xadUnTar 1.1
- - little bug fix.
-
- xadUnTar 1.0
- - First public release.
-
- COPYRIGHT
- xadUnTar is freely distributable for noncommercial use.
-
- AUTHOR
- Dirk Stöcker
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 10
- 01877 Bischofswerda
- GERMANY
-
- Dirk Stoecker <stoecker@epost.de>
-