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Index

a

  • abbreviations for months
  • absolute file names
  • Adding archives to an archive
  • Adding files to an archive
  • Age, excluding files by
  • ago in date strings
  • Alaska-Hawaii Time
  • am in date strings
  • archive
  • Archive contents, list of
  • Archive creation
  • archive member
  • Archive members, list of
  • Archive Name
  • Atlantic Standard Time
  • authors of getdate
  • Azores Time

    b

  • Baghdad Time
  • beginning of time, for Unix
  • Bellovin, Steven M.
  • Berets, Jim
  • Berry, K.
  • Block Size
  • blocking factor
  • Blocking Factor
  • Blocks, incomplete
  • bug reports
  • Bytes per block

    c

  • calendar date item
  • case, ignored in dates
  • Central Alaska Time
  • Central European Time
  • Central Standard Time
  • China Coast Time
  • comments, in dates
  • Compressed archives
  • Concatenating Archives
  • corrupted archives

    d

  • DAT blocking
  • date format, ISO 8601
  • date input formats
  • day in date strings
  • day of week item
  • daylight savings time
  • Deleting files from an archive
  • Directing output
  • directory arguments
  • Directory, changing in mid-stream
  • Disk space, running out of
  • displacement of dates
  • Double-checking a write operation
  • dumps, full
  • dumps, incremental

    e

  • East Australian Standard Time
  • Eastern European Time
  • Eastern Standard Time
  • End-of-archive entries, ignoring
  • entry
  • epoch, for Unix
  • Error message, record number of
  • Exabyte blocking
  • Excluding file by age
  • Excluding files by file system
  • Excluding files by name and pattern
  • exit status
  • extraction
  • Extraction

    f

  • Feedback from tar
  • file name
  • File Name arguments, alternatives
  • File names, excluding files by
  • File names, using symbolic links
  • File system boundaries, not crossing
  • first in date strings
  • Format Options
  • Format Parameters
  • Format, old style
  • fortnight in date strings
  • French Winter Time
  • full dumps

    g

  • general date syntax
  • getdate
  • Getting more information during the operation
  • Greenwich Mean Time
  • Guam Standard Time

    h

  • Hawaii Standard Time
  • hour in date strings

    i

  • Ignoring end-of-archive entries
  • incompleteness of this manual
  • incremental dumps
  • Information during operation
  • Information on progress and status of operations
  • Interactive operation
  • International Date Line East
  • International Date Line West
  • ISO 8601 date format
  • items in date strings

    j

  • Japan Standard Time

    l

  • Labeling an archive
  • Labelling multi-volume archives
  • Labels on the archive media
  • Large lists of file names on small machines
  • last day
  • last in date strings
  • Lists of file names

    m

  • MacKenzie, David
  • member
  • member name
  • Meyering, Jim
  • Middle European Time
  • Middle European Winter Time
  • Middle of the archive, starting in the
  • midnight in date strings
  • minute in date strings
  • minutes, timezone correction by
  • Modes of extracted files
  • Modification time, excluding files by
  • Modification times of extracted files
  • Modifying archives
  • month in date strings
  • month names in date strings
  • months, written-out
  • Mountain Standard Time
  • Multi-volume archives

    n

  • Names of the files in an archive
  • Naming an archive
  • New Zealand Standard Time
  • next day
  • next in date strings
  • Nome Standard Time
  • noon in date strings
  • now in date strings
  • ntape device
  • Number of bytes per block
  • Number of records per block
  • numbers, written-out

    o

  • Old style archives
  • Old style format
  • option syntax, traditional
  • Options to specify archive format.
  • Options when reading archives
  • ordinal numbers
  • Overwriting old files, prevention

    p

  • Pacific Standard Time
  • Permissions of extracted files
  • Pinard, F.
  • pm in date strings
  • Progress information
  • Protecting old files
  • pure numbers in date strings

    r

  • Reading incomplete blocks
  • Record number where error occured
  • Records per block
  • relative items in date strings
  • remote tape drive
  • Removing files from an archive
  • reporting bugs
  • Resurrecting files from an archive
  • Retrieving files from an archive
  • return status
  • rmt
  • Running out of space
  • Running out of space during extraction

    s

  • Salz, Rich
  • Small memory
  • Space on the disk, recovering from lack of
  • Sparse Files
  • Specifying archive members
  • Specifying files to act on
  • Standard input and output
  • Standard output, writing extracted files to
  • Status information
  • Storing archives in compressed format
  • Swedish Winter Time
  • Symbolic link as file name

    t

  • tape blocking
  • tape marks
  • tape positioning
  • tar
  • tar archive
  • tar entry
  • tar file
  • tar to standard input and output
  • this in date strings
  • time of day item
  • timezone correction
  • timezone item
  • today in date strings
  • tomorrow in date strings

    u

  • Ultrix 3.1 and write failure
  • Universal Coordinated Time
  • unpacking
  • Updating an archive
  • USSR Zone
  • uuencode

    v

  • Verbose operation
  • Verifying a write operation
  • Verifying the currency of an archive
  • Version of the tar program

    w

  • week in date strings
  • West African Time
  • West Australian Standard Time
  • Western European Time
  • Where is the archive?
  • Working directory, specifying
  • Writing extracted files to standard output
  • Writing new archives

    y

  • year in date strings
  • yesterday in date strings
  • Yukon Standard Time

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