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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-tar" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="tar.html"?>
10
11 <title>Tar-&tar-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar">
14 <primary sortas="a-Tar">Tar</primary>
15 </indexterm>
16
17 <sect2 role="package">
18 <title/>
19
20 <para>The Tar package contains an archiving program.</para>
21
22
23 </sect2>
24
25 <sect2 role="installation">
26 <title>Installation of Tar</title>
27
28 <para os="p1">The following patch adds a man page for <command>tar</command>:</para>
29
30<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-man_page-patch;</userinput></screen>
31
32 <para os="p3">The following patch contains a fix for an issue that may occur
33 when <command>tar</command> calls an outside compression utility like
34 <command>bzip2</command>:</para>
35
36<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&tar-revert_pipe_drain-patch;</userinput></screen>
37
38 <para os="a">Prepare Tar for compilation:</para>
39
40<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --libexecdir=/usr/sbin</userinput></screen>
41
42 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
43
44<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
45
46 <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
47 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
48
49 <para os="f">Install the package:</para>
50
51<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
52
53 </sect2>
54
55 <sect2 id="contents-tar" role="content">
56 <title>Contents of Tar</title>
57
58 <segmentedlist>
59 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
60
61 <seglistitem>
62 <seg>rmt and tar</seg>
63 </seglistitem>
64 </segmentedlist>
65
66 <variablelist>
67 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
68 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
69 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
70
71 <varlistentry id="rmt">
72 <term><command>rmt</command></term>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>Remotely manipulates a magnetic
75 tape drive through an interprocess communication connection</para>
76 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar rmt">
77 <primary sortas="b-rmt">rmt</primary>
78 </indexterm>
79 </listitem>
80 </varlistentry>
81
82 <varlistentry id="tar">
83 <term><command>tar</command></term>
84 <listitem>
85 <para>Creates, extracts files from, and lists the contents of
86 archives, also known as tarballs</para>
87 <indexterm zone="ch-system-tar tar">
88 <primary sortas="b-tar">tar</primary>
89 </indexterm>
90 </listitem>
91 </varlistentry>
92
93 </variablelist>
94
95 </sect2>
96
97</sect1>
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