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harti brandt wrote:
> joe mcguckin wrote:
> 
>> Will a 'modern' tar allow me to interactively  browse through the 
>> save-set
>> and arbitrarily select files to be restored?
>>
> 
> As far as I know star as well as even the old v7 tar has an interactive 
> mode,
> that even allows you to change the filename that is to be restored. It's 
> not point-'n-click
> of course.

You've clearly never used 'restore.'  ;-)

Try it someday.

Tim