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Tim Kientzle wrote:
>  >>That said, however, if you're used to crufty old BSD tar
>  >>or crufty new GNU tar, you might be surprised at what a
>  >>good modern tar implementation can do.
> 
> joe mcguckin wrote:
> 
>> Will a 'modern' tar allow me to interactively  browse through the 
>> save-set
>> and arbitrarily select files to be restored?

FYI, it looks like Joerg Schilling might have already
added this to the most recent version of 'star.'

Tim