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From: rsalz@uunet.uu.net (Rich Salz)
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Subject: [comp.sources.unix] v24i077:  Tool to salvage data from damaged tar tapes
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Date: 23 Mar 91 06:19:51 GMT
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Archive-name: compression/tar/tarx/1991-03-21
Archive-directory: uunet.uu.net:/comp.sources.unix/volume24/tarx/ [137.39.1.2]
Original-posting-by: rsalz@uunet.uu.net (Rich Salz)
Original-subject: v24i077:  Tool to salvage data from damaged tar tapes
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

Tarx is a newer, cleaner, more versatile replacement for my old targ/tarl
programs for salvaging information from damaged tar tapes.  It does a
better job on various details and has been extensively tidied up.

It uses a simplistic pattern-matching approach to identify tar header
blocks.  It will cheerfully persist despite all sorts of bad things about
the archive (such as wrong checksums, read errors, and scraped-off
magnetic surface...), up to a maximum of "errlimit" hard errors in a row

It can be used to list the files, and extract as much of them as is
possible.

                                      Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                      henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
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