
        D i s k    A R c h i v e


PRESENTATION
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dar is a shell command, that makes backup of a directory tree and files.
It has been tested under Linux, Windows (95, 2000, NT, XP), Solaris 8,
FreeBSD and NetBSD. External GUI are possible thanks to the libdar library
and its API.

Actually dar is a set of six commands:
        dar
        dar_xform
        dar_slave
        dar_manager
        dar_static (statically linked version of dar, it does not exist for
                    Cygwin nor Solaris)
        dar_cp

And since version 2.0.0 theses commands are based on a library called
libdar. This library is part of dar and licensed under the Gnu General
Public License (GPL in the following) like all the source code of the Dar
suite programs. This imply that you can link libdar to your programs at
the condition that your programs are also covered by the GPL, which says
in particular that you must provide source code of your program. See
COPYING file for details.

To use the libdar library an API has been defined. See doc/DOC_API for details
on this API. Have a look at doc/LINKS to get a non exhaustive list of external
applications that relies on libdar.


PACKAGE CONTENT
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for functional description see the ./doc/FEATURES file
for actual limitations see the ./doc/LIMITATIONS file
for installation instructions see ./INSTALL file
for a brief tutorial see ./doc/TUTORIAL file
for those who like to start with examples see ./doc/samples/REAME file
for complete usage help see man page (type 'man dar' after installation)
for detailed information on miscellaneous topics see the ./doc/NOTES file
for related projects like Front End of command-line generators ./doc/LINKS
for planned features see ./TODO
for list of changes see ./Changelog
for license information see ./COPYING
for author information see ./AUTHOR

