>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13 18:57:45 2001
>So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 06:32:44PM +0200:
>> No GNU tar needs to be fixed. The warnings resulted from the non
>> POSIX compliance of GNU tar!
>No, Sun tar needs to be fixed to conform to the De-Facto standard of GNU
>tar, even if it's non-compliant.
>Please excuse me ignorance, but what are the benefits if a tar
>implementation is completely POSIX compliant?
The POSIX tar format is clean designed, the GNU tar format is ill designed.
It breaks basic laws of tar archives, just read may documentation.
And now please stop this thread, it does not give us new information.
J�rg
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