LibTar unit

tar archive manipulation classes.

The libtar units provides 2 classes to read and write .tar archives: TTarArchive class can be used to read a tar file, and the TTarWriter class can be used to write a tar file. The unit was implemented originally by Stefan Heymann.

Classes and records

`TTarArchive`	class	Class to examine and read tar archives.
`TTarDirRec`	record	Tar Directory entry.
`TTarWriter`	class	Class to write tar archives.

Procedures and functions

`ClearDirRec`	procedure	Initialize tar archive entry.
`ConvertFilename`	function	Convert filename to archive format.
`FileTimeGMT`	function	Extract filetime.
`PermissionString`	function	Convert a set of permissions to a string.

Types

`TFileType`	enumeration	File type.
`TTarMode`	enumeration	Tar mode.
`TTarModes`	set	Full set of modes.
`TTarPermission`	enumeration	File permissions.
`TTarPermissions`	set	Complete set of permissions for file.

Constants

`ALL_PERMISSIONS`	constant	Set with all permissions.
`EXECUTE_PERMISSIONS`	constant	Set with all execute permissions.
`FILETYPE_NAME`	constant	Names of filetypes.
`READ_PERMISSIONS`	constant	Set with all read permissions.
`WRITE_PERMISSIONS`	constant	Set with all write permissions.

Uses

An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.