> -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Freitag, 15. Juni 2001 14:15 > > So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at > 12:34:52PM +0200: > > to use star instead of GNU tar. Star produces (in default > mode) archives that > > are readable with all tar implementations except GNUtar. In > addition, star > > Darn, I didn't want to say anything to this anymore - but: If > star produces > archives that are not readable by the biggest number of tar > installation > (ie. GNU tar), than star is broken, although it may be POSIX > compliant. > Like it, or not, but GNU tar is the de-facto standard, even > if it's not > POSIX compliant. If it's such a huge problem to *YOU* that > GNUtar is not > POSIX compliant, then the only choice is, that *YOU* make it > compliant. > Obiously nobody else seems to care that much about it, else > it would have > been fixed already. > So we, the memers of this list finally know that gnutar does have some problems, and we should avoid the usage of it. Is there a change of getting star as new version of GNUtar? - this could help MANY people (not only on this list). Horst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
