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.\" Man page for mxtar
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.\" Copyright (C), 2003, Luis Bustamante
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.\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public
.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the mtools
.\" package
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.\" Mon Mar  3 11:58:15 COT 2003 Luis Bustamante <luferbu@fluidsignal.com>
.\" 
.TH MXTAR 1 "Mon Mar  3 11:58:15 COT 2003" "" "Mtools Users Manual"
.SH NAME
mxtar \- Wrapper for using GNU tar directly from a floppy disk
.SH SYNOPSIS
.\" The command line
.B mxtar 
[
.B \-
]
.I [ tar-options ]
.I file
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mxtar
let you use GNU \fBtar\fR(1) on a floppy disk without mounting it using
\fBmtools\fR(1).
It is not strictly necessary on Debian GNU/Linux, because the GNU
\fBtar\fR(1) program provides the same capability after copying the
file locally with

.B mcopy
.I file
.I destination

but this utility is provided in the mtools package for other platforms and 
is retained here for completeness.

.SH AUTHOR
Luis Bustamante <luferbu@fluidsignal.com> wrote this page for the
.I Debian/GNU
mtools package.


.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mtools (1),
.BR tar (1), 
.BR mcopy (1)