star and hdup

Hello,

After an email discussion with Joerg Schilling (from star fame) I
started to look into star. Check for instance the -F options in
there..:
	With four -F arguments, star ignores  all  sub trees starting
	from a directory that includes a file .mirror or .exclude the
	latter files are excluded too as well as and all object files
	and files called core errs a.out all  files ending with .o. 

and

pattern=pat
	Set matching pattern to pattern. 

which can also be reversed. All in all, I looked about 5 minutes to
star and that lead me to the conclusion that star is going to be the
new way to go for hdup. This will mean a code reduction of about 30%,
which is there to program around tar errors.

As 1.6.37 is just released I will use that as a starting point for
hdup2. I'm planning a few extra things:

o move to Glib for lowlevel C stuff 
o open up svn for public svn access

For the rest I hope most of the stuff can be kept the same (ie. the
config file and other stuff)

grtz,
--Miek

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