From 840cb1373f7dc156668d0b70087b67dde7f0ad5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Klemm Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 10:16:32 +0000 Subject: New port "star" 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. --- archivers/star-devel/pkg-comment | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 archivers/star-devel/pkg-comment (limited to 'archivers/star-devel/pkg-comment') diff --git a/archivers/star-devel/pkg-comment b/archivers/star-devel/pkg-comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e499d8eaa97f --- /dev/null +++ b/archivers/star-devel/pkg-comment @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +unique standard tape archiver with many enhancements -- cgit v1.2.3