Enhancement to tar

[simon.geard]

Sorry if this has gone to the wrong address I tried the forum address in the
README and it got bounced back.

I have enhanced my local version of tar (1.12) to optionally use a signal file
rather than the tty method when waiting for some user response. This is the
help segment:

      --signal_file=FILE         use the specified file's presence as the 
signal to
                                 continue when a new tape is inserted, rather 
than the
                                 default tty option. The first character of the 
file is read:
                                 if it is 'y' or 'Y' then tar continues, 
otherwise tar terminates.
                                 This option is useful for wrapper
                                 applications to control tar by avoiding the 
blocking
                                 that can happen whilst waiting for tty input.
 
Attached are unified diffs for the two files I've changed: tar.c and buffer.c.
>From my point of view it would be great if you adopted these patches and I
happy for the code to be released under GPL or any other licence.

If you want any more info please contact me.

With best regards,

Simon Geard.

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