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@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +'\" t +.\" ** The above line should force tbl to be a preprocessor ** +.\" Man page for mxtar +.\" +.\" Copyright (C), 2003, Luis Bustamante +.\" +.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public +.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the mtools +.\" package +.\" +.\" Mon Mar 3 11:58:15 COT 2003 Luis Bustamante <luferbu@fluidsignal.com> +.\" +.TH MXTAR 1 "Mon Mar 3 11:58:15 COT 2003" "" "Mtools Users Manual" +.SH NAME +mxtar \- Wrapper for using GNU tar directly from a floppy disk +.SH SYNOPSIS +.\" The command line +.B mxtar +[ +.B \- +] +.I [ tar-options ] +.I file +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B mxtar +let you use GNU \fBtar\fR(1) on a floppy disk without mounting it using +\fBmtools\fR(1). +It is not strictly necessary on Debian GNU/Linux, because the GNU +\fBtar\fR(1) program provides the same capability after copying the +file locally with + +.B mcopy +.I file +.I destination + +but this utility is provided in the mtools package for other platforms and +is retained here for completeness. + +.SH AUTHOR +Luis Bustamante <luferbu@fluidsignal.com> wrote this page for the +.I Debian/GNU +mtools package. + + +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR mtools (1), +.BR tar (1), +.BR mcopy (1) |