dar output into tar format?

I'm writing a webmin module that is an interface to retrieve files from a
dar archive, more suitable for looking for an old version of a file, that
for restoring whole archives. As soon as i have tested it enought I will let
it available for everyone.

Rather than using dar_manager (but i will use it in the future) I slap all
files in a db and query the db, so that I can make any sort of search very
quickly.

When the user chooses the file to retrieve, the web interface executes dar
to retrieve it (all archives on line in big disks). Very simple and
effective for single files.

When a directory is to be restored, I'd like to be able to extract from dar
in tar format so that anybody can just click on the extracted file and have
it on the pc, in a more common format.

Would that be mis-using dar?

How could I do it? Is it something that could be added to dar?


TYA
sandro

PS: of course I can tar it afterwords, but that would take much more space...


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