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+libtar - C library for manipulating tar files
+======
+
+libtar is a library for manipulating tar files from within C programs.
+Here are some of its features:
+
+  * Handles both POSIX tar file format and the GNU extensions.
+  * API provides functions for easy use, such as tar_extract_all().
+  * Also provides functions for more granular use, such as 
+    tar_append_regfile().
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+To build libtar, you should be able to simply run these commands:
+
+   ./configure
+   make
+   make install
+
+
+Encap Package Support
+---------------------
+
+To build this software as an Encap package, you can pass the
+--enable-encap option to configure.  This will be automatically
+enabled if the epkg or mkencap programs are detected on the system,
+but can be overridden by the --disable-encap option.
+
+When building an Encap package, the configure script will automatically
+adjust the installation prefix to use an appropriate Encap package
+directory.  It does this using a heuristic algorithm which examines the
+values of the ${ENCAP_SOURCE} and ${ENCAP_TARGET} environment variables
+and the argument to configure's --prefix option.
+
+If mkencap was detected on the system, it will be automatically run during
+"make install".  By default, epkg will also be run, but this can be
+inhibited with the --disable-epkg-install configure option.
+
+For information on the Encap package management system, see the WSG
+Encap Archive:
+
+   http://www.encap.org/
+
+
+zlib Support
+------------
+
+The configure script will attempt to find the zlib library on your system
+for use with the libtar driver program.  The zlib package is available from:
+
+   http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
+
+If zlib is installed on your system, but you do not wish to use it,
+specify the --without-zlib option when you invoke configure.
+
+
+More Information
+----------------
+
+For documentation of the libtar API, see the enclosed manpages.  For more
+information on the libtar package, see:
+
+   http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/libtar/
+
+Source code for the latest version of libtar will be available there, as
+well as Encap binary distributions for many common platforms.
+
+
+Supported Platforms
+-------------------
+
+I develop and test libtar on the following platforms:
+
+   AIX 4.3.3 and 5.1
+   HP-UX 11.00
+   IRIX 6.5
+   RedHat Linux 7.2
+   Solaris 8 and 9
+
+It should also build on the following platforms, but I do not actively
+support them:
+
+   AIX 3.2.5
+   AIX 4.2.1
+   Cygwin
+   FreeBSD
+   HP-UX 10.20
+   Linux/libc5
+   OpenBSD
+   Solaris 2.5
+   Solaris 2.6
+   Solaris 7
+
+If you successfully build libtar on another platform, please email me a
+patch and/or configuration information.
+
+
+Compatibility Code
+------------------
+
+libtar depends on some library calls which are not available or not
+usable on some platforms.  To accomodate these systems, I've included
+a version of these calls in the compat subdirectory.
+
+I've slightly modified these functions for integration into this source
+tree, but the functionality has not been modified from the original
+source.  Please note that while this code should work for you, I didn't
+write it, so please don't send me bug reports on it.
+
+
+Author
+------
+
+Feedback and bug reports are welcome.
+
+Mark D. Roth <roth@uiuc.edu>
+Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services
+University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
+