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NAME

tarfs - mount tar archive

SYNOPSIS

tarfs [ -ab ] tarfile mountpt

DESCRIPTION

Tarfs makes the contents of the directories and files archived in the given Unix/POSIX tar archive tarfile visible in the name space under mountpt. They can then be accessed in an obvious way by other commands such as ls(1) and cp(1). Only read access is supported. User and group names are simply the numeric user and group IDs in the file. The -a and -b options cause the tarfile's name space to be placed after or before the current contents of mountpt; the default is to replace that directory's contents.

SOURCE

/appl/cmd/tarfs.b

SEE ALSO

gettar(1), archfs(4), intro(5)

TARFS(4 ) Rev:  Thu Feb 15 14:43:41 GMT 2007