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Izaya 235684b979 moved the unarchive function out of libmtar, making it significantly simpler and more compact, and allowing implementations to deal with the implementation details 2020-05-30 09:51:47 +10:00
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OpenOS/usr moved the unarchive function out of libmtar, making it significantly simpler and more compact, and allowing implementations to deal with the implementation details 2020-05-30 09:51:47 +10:00
README.md added file format documentation 2020-03-08 02:16:31 +11:00
libmtar.lua moved the unarchive function out of libmtar, making it significantly simpler and more compact, and allowing implementations to deal with the implementation details 2020-05-30 09:51:47 +10:00

README.md

mtar - Minitel Archiver

mtar is a file format for storing multiple files in a single file, much like tar, cpio or zip.

File format

mtar archive files consist of a number of file entries, in the following format:

  • 2 bytes file name length
  • the file name
  • 2 bytes file content length
  • the file contents

Archives are terminated either by the end of file, or a record with a name length of zero.