Hello Sergey My apologies. The problem I'm having is with GNU formatted archives. I saw the "ustar" text in the header records in the tar file, and immediately typed that in my e-mail. I am still new to the world of tar archives. Tar is definitely generating archives with --format=gnu.
So, I changed the subject accordingly. My problem still remains ... and since I'm trying to shut off that old Solaris 10 system, I'd like to know that the archives it generates are indeed "standard-compliant" rather than ending up with gigabytes of "digital trash" which are going to be unrecoverable on other systems (one of the reasons I was trying to open my resultant archives with 7-Zip and WinZip). Regards, Jason -----Original Message----- From: Sergey Poznyakoff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, 4 June 2010 11:03 AM To: Armistead, Jason Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.23: Problem under Solaris 10 - incorrect Ustar header contents Armistead, Jason <[email protected]> ha escrit: > I'm building a UStar formatted archive (the default for tar) The default format for GNU tar is GNU, *not* ustar. If you wish to create ustar archives, use --format=ustar (-Hustar) option. Regards, Sergey
