Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!deneb.ucdavis.edu!cck From: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: tar header format Message-ID: <2716@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 13 Aug 88 17:36:47 GMT References: <18511@neabbs.UUCP> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu.UUCP (Earl H. Kinmonth) Organization: University of California, Davis Lines: 19 In article <18511@neabbs.UUCP> richard@neabbs.UUCP (RICHARD RONTELTAP) writes: >[ type man F tar for tar header information ] > >Where, How and When? > >Do I get the manual pages on SCO XENIX (man(C))? Wading through the >books is getting on my nerves. > >Richard >(mcvax!neabbs!richard) I don't know what version of SCO Xenix you have. Mine has a volume, "User's Reference" (C) (M) (F). There is a tab for the (F) section that says "File Formats." There is an index for this section that says "TAR (F)." Looking at this section gives the TAR header. My version of SCO Xenix also has a permuted index. This should give you the same search path that I've given.