>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13 16:17:10 2001
>I use cpio to do backup and occasionally use tar ( on sun ) and GNU tar (
I cannot recommend cpio. There are 6 completely incompatible archive
versions. None of them are is ablt to handle large files ( > 2 gb).
Fir this reason, the only archive format that survived the POSIXstandard
wars is tar.
>on linux ). It appears to me that most unix developers used tar. Wondering
>which tar they used? Probably they do not care as long as nobody complain.
>Is it true that Sun people are complaining about GNU tar?
Sun's tar is _far_ more POSIX compliant than GNU tar, so people have problems
with GNU tar. ... The good thing is that the latest alpha finally is able
to read long filenames correctly, so most GNU tar incompatibility problems
now have been solved. The bad thing is that it took more than 10 years
to fix GNU tar.
>Are there any problems using zip to distribute cdrecord? From you mail it
>seems that you do not like Sun using zip archives. Actually I think
>www.sunfreeware.com (probably sponsored by sun) is providing packages in
>sun package form in GNU zip fomat.
I will not go to a nonstandard archive format.
J�rg
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