xtar(1)xtar(1)NAMExtar 1.4 - view contents of a tar file
SYNOPSISxtar [Xoptions] [tarfile[.gz|.Z]]
DESCRIPTION
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 ar‐
chive. 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 press‐
ing '/' in the main window.
NEXT Search for the next occurence of the regular expres‐
sion. 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, owner‐
ship, 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.
AUTHOR
Rik Turnbull, University of Liverpool <rik@csc.liv.ac.uk>
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