>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>On 05.06.2001 02:48:21 Carsten Neumann wrote:
>> I also never had any trouble using GNU tar to extract the archives.
>> But maybe there are _outdated_versions_ ( ;-)) ) of GNU tar which had trouble
>> with them.
>Yeah, that's what I'm beginning to think as well. Some ancient versions may
>have problems. Anyone using extremely old versions of GNU tar still? Does
>gnu.org still carry extremely old versions?
The last test I did is about half a year ago and this GNU tar was definitely
_not_ POSIX compliant.
It is most unlikely that GNUtar now is POSIX compliant as the internal structure
of GNU tar is just junk and it would be a hard time to fix GNU tar.
NOTE that I try to create my tar archives in a way that avoid GNU tar problems.
J�rg
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