archiver for Fourth Edition through Sixth Edition Unix; it was
replaced by tar in Seventh Edition. (First Edition through
Third Edition used "tap.")
Unfortunately, tp was not so very standard; there were a
few different variants. The code here attempts to support
what I believe were the most common variants.
tp support is not yet enabled by archive_read_support_format_all(),
as I'm not yet entirely comfortable with the detection
heuristics. People interested in experimenting can
add archive_read_support_format_tp() just after any calls
to archive_read_support_format_all() in bsdtar to see how
well this works.
TODO: tp format is roughly similar in structure to dump/restore
archive formats used by many systems. It should be possible
to generalize this code to handle many dump/restore variants.
Format detection heuristics are going to be rough, though.
Thanks to: Warren Toomey, whose very basic tp extraction programs
and documentation made this possible.
GNU tar sparse files, people have extended cpio) and clarify an
important detail about pax format (that ustar-compliant archivers
can mostly read pax archives correctly).
MFC after: 7 days
archive formats supported by libarchive, with some information about
the relative strengths and weaknesses of each format and notes about
issues with libarchive's support for those formats.
This page should make it unnecessary to list all of the libarchive
formats in the manpage of each program that uses libarchive.
Such programs can simply refer to libarchive-formats(5).
