So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:44:25PM +0200:
> GNU tar is _the_ program with portability problems! This is the fact.
>
> The bad result of this fact is that Sun is using more and more *.zip archives
That's a fault of Sun, and not of GNU tar - see below.
> beacause people are using GNU tar, are unwilling to accept that there
> is a GNu tar compatibility problem and complain about exptraction
> problems....
Okay, I may now sound Microsoft'ish - but what kind of Unix is used most,
nowadays? Isn't it Linux? And thus - what kind of tar is installed most?
If Linux is used/installed most, than it's GNU. According to this, GNU is
the *standard* even if it's not POSIX compliant.
IOW: If it's working on GNU tar, that's all I'm concerned about as you can
also easily (? well, dunno, but I suppose so) install GNU tar on any other
kind of operating system, as long as you can compile programs. If there's
no compiler available, GNU C is also available for a *HUGE* number of
platforms.
> Sou you should decide to avoid GNU tar...
No, you have to create archives that work with GNU tar... Granted, you do
this.
Alexander Skwar
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