Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> suggested:
> So sprach Bill Davidsen am Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:02:15AM -0400:
> > It is certainly "not untrue" in the sense that some are. GNU tar will
> > produce warnings when using certain tar files created by Sun tar.
>
> So the Sun tar needs to be fixed!
The Sun tar is POSIX compliant, and even I would not suggest that it
is broken. It does create less portable archives than GNU tar, however,
which would suggest that GNU tar would be a better choice for creating
archives if your goal is maximum portability.
Of course if you actually want to generate warnings so you can
pontificate about how non-standard GNU tar is...
Incidentally, AFAIK GNU tar is *not* "non-standard" but rather
implements a subset of the standard. That is, nothing outside the
standard but not everything in the standard.
Amusingly, GNU cpio with the -Hustar option seems to read and write
POSIX.1 format just fine, and creates portable tar archives as well. I
haven't tried creating the exception cases Joerg has shared with us
(long filenames, etc), but it reads them just fine.
> Alexander Skwar
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