On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Curt Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > > > Thank you. Didn't see the --format option when I do a "man tar" but I > > now see it when I do a "tar --help". > > Please see GNU tar documentation. The `--format' option is described > in the chapter 8, "Controlling the Archive Format". The infornation is > also available on line, see > > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_3.html#IDX71 > > for a description of the `--format' command line option, and > > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_8.html > Thank you. I looked through both and didn't see anything on "pax"? Did I miss it somewhere? -Curt > for a description of various archive formats. > > > Just curious as to the answer to Jörg question below. > > >Does this mean you introduced an incompatible alternative for multi-volume > > The meaning of "incompatible" is not entirely clear to me. The GNU tar > documentation states clearly that "multi-volume support is a GNU > extension and the archives created in this mode should be read only > using GNU `tar'" (see section 9.6.1 "Archives Longer than One Tape or > Disk", http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_75.html). > However, multi-volume archives in pax format are readable and > extractable almost with any tar implementation, see > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_140.html for a > description. > > Regards, > Sergey >
