Hey, On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 22:14 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:30, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > On Thu, August 18, 2005 7:18 am, Nick Rout said: > > > use bunzip to get a tar then use tar in the normal way, you can pipe it > > > too. > > > > bunzip2 works better :) > > > > You need to use gunzip for .tar.gz as well with native solaris ( aka brain > > dead ) tar. > > > > Steve > I wonder just how old that tar is! GNU tar's used gzip as a library for as > long as I've had Linux - SLS was distributed as *.tgz -, and undoubtedly > longer.
Well, looking at the headers in http://cvs.opensolaris.org it seems to suggest 1983 - of course it could be older or younger, I haven't checked the history. The reason why such a brain dead tar is still packaged is completely due to binary compatibility - no one yet has managed to come up with the code to make sure a newer version doesn't break scripts and other uses. Hopefully people will start working on those types of projects within OpenSolaris, because needless to say, it's badly needed ;) Glynn
