On Sun, Dec 16, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >From: Andrew Josey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I'll give star a whirl to see if we get any better > >results than for pax... > > > Mmm there are at last 2 different progras calling themselve 'pax'. > If you mean the pax implementation tat comes with Solaris 8 ff. > it seems to be easy to get better results than for pax as this pax > implementation does not compute checksums correctly in extract or > list mode.
All pax implementations I know of do it the "Solaris" way. I think this could be a big problem if all pax implementatins compute the chksum wrong :-( > Could you please point me to the latest TAR test suite so I can do > the tests myself too? They are part of the LSB test suite. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE GmbH Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
