>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13 17:40:44 2001
>> GNU tar is _the_ program with portability problems! This is the fact.
> GNU tar creates files which can be read by every system I have tried.
>Without problems, without errors, without even warnings. On the other
>hand, star creates archives which do not work without problems on all
>common systems.
You are wrong!
The only tar implementation that makes problems is GNU tar.
Star's arvhives can be read by all known tar implementations exept GNU tar.
It looks lokt the GNU guys are trying to keep GNU tar noncompliant
to hold competition down.
> By my definition that makes star archives less portable. They may
>conform to standards, but they don't work properly on as many systems as
>GNU tar. do understand I'm talking about portability, not conformance. I
>would never deliberately create an archive which I knew would not work
>properly on some common systems, at least if my goal was to make the
>information freely and easily available.
So why don"t you request GNU tar to be fixed?
>> Sou you should decide to avoid GNU tar...
> No, because I can read GNU tar output on more systems with less
>trouble than any other format I use for giving away my software. This is
>the "lowest common denominator" principle. For the same reason, when I
>write a shell script I make it work with the default /bin/sh in Xenix,
>SVR[34], BSD, Solaris, and Linux. I'm trying to make it easy for the
>user.
Again, you are wong.
Star is at least as portable as GNU tar, so you still have the choice
to use a standar complianttar archiver...
J�rg
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