Thanks to everybody who answered. I've got a lot of good advice which I am sure will lead me to a good solution.
What about pax? It is part of the distribution on the RH9, Tru64, and ???
From man pax:
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The pax utility is a superset of the IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'')
standard.
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pax will read, write, and list the members of an archive file, and will
copy directory hierarchies. pax operation is independent of the specific archive format, and supports a wide variety of different archive formats. A list of supported archive formats can be found under the description of the -x option.
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While processing a damaged archive during a read or list operation, pax
will attempt to recover from media defects and will search through the
archive to locate and process the largest number of archive members pos-
sible (see the -E option for more details on error handling).
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-f archive
Specify archive as the pathname of the input or output archive,
overriding the default standard input (for list and read) or
standard output (for write). A single archive may span multiple
files and different archive devices. When required, pax will
prompt for the pathname of the file or device of the next volume
in the archive.
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Regards, Bob -- Bob Marcan mailto:bob.marcan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Aster^H^H...HermesPlus^H^H^H...S&T Slandrova ul. 2 tel: +386 (1) 5895-200 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia http://www.hermes-plus.si
