Greetings, I'm looking for a documentation explaining the layout of ".snar" files. >From listing a ".snar" file using the "strings" command I already know that numerical strings are either access rights or time stamps and that for directories the relative paths are listed, followed by anything con- tained therein. Here it seems sub-directory names are prefixed with "D", ordinary files which are existing but are not included in the last incremental are prefixed with "N" and new or modified ordinary files are prefixed with "Y".
But looking at the "tar" source files, I can see that apart from "D" and "N" also the characters "I", "R", "T", and "X" are used. Judging from the source code I assumed "R" and "T" are used to specify "from" and "to" paths associated with a renaming operation, but moving both, an ordinary file and a sub-direcory in a test directory caused the old names to disappear from the ".snar" file completely and the new names to be prefixed with "D" and "Y", respectively. Could anyone shed some more light onto this? Sincerely Rainer
