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Star is the fastest known implementation of a tar archiver.

Main advantages over other tar implementations:
    fifo            - Keeps the tape streaming.
    pattern matcher     - For a convenient user interface.
    sophisticated diff  - User tailorable interface for comparing tar
                  archives against file trees.
    no namelen limitation   - Pathnames up to 1024 Bytes may be archived.
    deals with all 3 times  - Stores/restores all 3 times of a file.
    does not clobber files  - More recent copies on disk will not be
                  clobbered from tape.
    automatic byte swap - star automatically detects swapped archives.
    automatic format detect - Automatically detects archive formats:
                  old tar, gnu tar, ansi tar, star.
    fully ansi compatible   - star is fully ANSI/Posix 1003.1 compatible.

WWW: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star.html

Author: Joerg Schilling <js@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Please mail bugs and suggestions to him.