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@@ -12,32 +12,38 @@ The following is a short description of the tests:
* gtarfail.sh and gtarfile2.tar
Need gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively. These are POSIX
compliant tar files that were not accepted by previous versions of
GNU tar.
These tests require gtarfile.tar and gtarfile2.tar, respectively.
These files are POSIX compliant tar archives that were not accepted
by previous versions of GNU tar.
* multi-fail.sh
Requires gnu-multi-fail-volume1.gtar and gnu-multi-fail-volume2.gtar.
These are two parts of a multi-volume archive that previous versions
of tar refused to read (at least, without -B option).
* ustar-big-2g.sh
Needs ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with
Requires ustar-big-2g.tar.bz2. It is a tar archive containing a file with
the largest size that a historic tar implementation is able to understand.
* ustar-big-8g.sh
Needs ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing
Requires ustar-big-8g.tar.bz2. This is a test for reading an archive containing
files with the largest size that may be used with ustar (POSIX.1-1990)
format.
* pax-big-10g.sh
Needs pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
Requires pax-big-10g.tar.bz2. It tests handling pax (POSIX.1-2001) archves
containing very large files (in this case -- 1 GB).
* qucktest.sh
A test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. Needs
A test for compliance to POSIX.1-1990 tar specification. It requires
the files ustar-all-quicktest.tar and quicktest.filelist. Apart
from them, the `tartest' program from 'star' package is needed.
This test may be run only with root privileges, so it is a good
The test may be run only with root privileges, so it is a good
idea to test the contents of ustar-all-quicktest.tar before running
it.