On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:43:07PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote:
> > IIRC, modern Linux gzip can gzip and ungzip Hurd partitions.
****
> Or do you actually mean tar? I don't think GNU tar can deal with Hurd
> translators directly. It *might* be able to deal with extended
> attributes by now; so with the xattr-hurd patch (last tested on Linux
> 2.6.15) it might be possible to create and extract a tarball with
> translators. (It's definitely possible with star.)

Quite right, my mistake.  I meant tar.  star sounds interesting.

Phil.

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