Package libtar-1.2-1

libtar is a C library for manipulating POSIX tar files. It handles adding and extracting files to/from a tar archive. libtar offers the following features: * Flexible API - you can manipulate individual files or just extract a whole archive at once. * Allows user-specified read() and write() functions, such as zlib's gzread() and gzwrite(). * Supports both POSIX 1003.1-1990 and GNU tar file formats. For documentation of the libtar API, see the enclosed manpages. For more information on the libtar package, see: http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/libtar/