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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: simple tarfilter in perl (WAS Re: mtf, part 1 of 2)
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.174658.2987@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 24 Jan 91 17:46:58 GMT
References: <1991Jan21.000636.3518@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Jan23.175822.24238@robobar.co.uk>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
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As quoted from <1991Jan23.175822.24238@robobar.co.uk> by ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo):
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| Actually, there's no reason it shouldn't have been written as a complete
| tar replacement program, it wouldn't have been much bigger.   Has anyone
+---------------

In fact, I have a set of routines, based in concept but not in code, on
perltar.pl as posted to comp.lang.perl some time ago.  It can read archives
and dynamically determines whether they are tar, cpio, ar, xar (Xenix/PDP-11
ar), and it can write all of those formats as well.  I haven't posted them
because I'm still making sure they're fully operational, but I can post them
if anyone wants them.  Adding name fixing and/or resynchronization should be
relatively easy; adding more archive formats is also fairly simple, thanks to
the fact that it's in Perl.  ;-)

++Brandon
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