Charles Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote:
> No; it's not considered an error to create a tar file which archived zero
> files.
In addition: modern tar implementations like star (that implement buffering)
would
have problems to delay opening the archive until the first "usable" file was
found.
Jörg
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