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From: wollman@emily.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Tar tape recovery, how?
Message-ID: <1991May4.015227.3076@uvm.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 01:52:27 GMT
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In article <1970@chinacat.Unicom.COM> chip@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Chip Rosenthal) writes:
>Get Henry Spencer's `tarx' posted recently to comp.sources.mumble.
>*Everybody* out there who ever uses tar should get a copy of it.  It's
>nifty, and it's a good idea to have on hand before you need it.

Not having seen the original posting but...

tarx has one shortcoming.  If you somehow manage to slightly corrupt a
compressed tar file (it was something to do with a bad memory board,
NFS, and a Silicon Graphics Power Server; don't ask), so that the
header is no longer in the right place (and the file is not a multiple
of the block size), tarx will be unable to find it.  I want to fix my
archive, so I will eventually hack up tarx to make it search for a
string known to be in every header (such as my uid), but for now...

-GAWollman


Garrett A. Wollman - wollman@emily.uvm.edu

Disclaimer:  I'm not even sure this represents *my* opinion, never
mind UVM's, EMBA's, EMBA-CF's, or indeed anyone else's.