tar archive format
Laird J. Heal
laird at chinet.chi.il.us
Mon Jan 21 22:10:00 AEST 1991
>Where can I find detailed information about the format of tar archives?
[Oh, Ma, you won't mind if I talk about your 'old man' a little, will ya?]
>From an old man page on tar(1):
"The _tar_ header format is as follows:
#define TBLOCK 512
#define NBLOCK 40
#define NAMSIZ 100
union hblock {
char dummy[TBLOCK];
struct header {
char name[NAMESIZ];
char mode[8];
char uid[8];
char gid[8];
char size[12];
char mtime[12];
char chksum[8];
char linkflag;
char linkname[NAMESIZ];
} dbuf;
} dblock, tbuf[NBLOCK];"
Laird J. Heal
Here: laird at chinet.chi.il.us
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