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xtar 1.4 - view contents of a tar file
xtar [Xoptions] [tarfile[.gz|.Z]]
XTar is a Motif program for viewing and manipulating tar archives
(which may be compressed). The contents of the archive are displayed in
the main window and various options are available from pulldown and popup
menus.
The main window shows the name of the file currently displayed, its
size and its size when unpacked.
The main XTar pulldown menu has the following
options:
- OPEN
- Open a new tar file.
- UNPACK ALL
- Unpack the entire archive. All
files are extracted in the same directory as the tar archive itself.
- UNPACK
ALL AS...
- Unpack the entire archive somewhere else. This allows you to select
another location to extract the tar archive. You can interactively select
a directory from the file selection box or type in the name of a new directory
which will be created.
- SEARCH...
- Perform a regular expression search on the
FILENAMES in the tar file. This can also be activated by pressing '/' in the
main window.
- NEXT
- Search for the next occurence of the regular expression.
This can also be activated by pressing
- CONVERT UID/GID
- Convert user IDs
and group IDs to names on the current system.
- QUIT
- Exit XTar.
The Option pulldown
menu allows you to perform actions on the currently selected file. A similar
menu is available by pressing the right mouse button in the list window.
Furthermore if you set the resource "showPB" to True then buttons are displayed
at the bottom of the main window to perform these actions too. They are
as follows:
- VIEW
- View a file. This uses the XTar resource "mappings" to display
the selected file. If the file ending matches one in the list then the appropriate
external viewer is called; otherwise it is assumed to be text and a window
is opened. The text window also shows the currently selected file and its
size.
- EXTRACT
- If you have selected a file, this extracts that file into the
current directory. If you have selected a directory this unpacks it in the
same directory as the the tar file.
- EXTRACT AS...
- Allows you to save the file
or directory under another name. If you try and extract a directory into
a directory which does not exist, then it is created first.
The Set Attributes
pulldown menu allows you to set permissions, ownership, and, if you are
root, the group id and time stamp, on extracted files. To enable these options
simply toggle the corresponding button.
The Info pulldown menu allows you
to access copyright information and the xtar man page.
Rik Turnbull,
University of Liverpool <rik@csc.liv.ac.uk>
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