<package name="star" project="internetx">

  <title>POSIX.1-2001 compliant tar implementation</title>

  <description>Star is a tar like archiver - TAR stands for Tape ARchiver. Star is the

fastest known implementation of a tar archiver.

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Features:

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- FIFO to keep the tape streaming.

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- remote tape support

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- accurate sparse files (if the OS supports it).

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- pattern matcher to archive/extract a subset of files.

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- user tailorable interface for comparing tar archives against file

   trees.

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- path names up to 1024 Bytes may be archived.

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- stores/restores all 3 times of a file (even creation time). With

POSIX.1-2001 the times are in nanosecond granularity.

</description>

  <person userid="hostmaster" role="maintainer"/>

</package>

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