Subject:  v24i077:  Tool to salvage data from damaged tar tapes
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Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu
Posting-number: Volume 24, Issue 77
Archive-name: tarx

Tarx is a newer, cleaner, more versatile replacement for my old targ/tarl
programs for salvaging information from damaged tar tapes.  It does a
better job on various details and has been extensively tidied up.

It uses a simplistic pattern-matching approach to identify tar header
blocks.  It will cheerfully persist despite all sorts of bad things about
the archive (such as wrong checksums, read errors, and scraped-off
magnetic surface...), up to a maximum of "errlimit" hard errors in a row

It can be used to list the files, and extract as much of them as is
possible.

                                         Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
                                          henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry