Begin3 Title: star Version: 1.2 Entered-date: 24JUN98 Description: Fastest & most POSIX compliant tar implementation for UNIX star is the fastest known tar implamentation for UNIX star is faster than ufsdump(8) star compiles and runs on most UNIX platforms star includes a fifo that keeps the tape streaming star has a user tailorable sophisticated diff option star supports reading and writing of old tar star xstar ustar and GNUtar archives if called with -Hustar it produces 100% POSIX compliant archives star automatically recognises all archive types and automatically swappes byte swapped archives Keywords: tar star fast backup ustar star gnutar Author: schilling@fokus.gmd.de (Jörg Schilling) Maintained-by: schilling@fokus.gmd.de (Jörg Schilling) Primary-site: ftp.fokus.gmd.de /pub/unix/star 172556 star-1.2.tar.gz Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/backup 172556 star-1.2.tar.gz Platforms: SunOS Solaris Linux *BSD HP-UX AIX IRIX DG/UX Copying-policy: GPL End