> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Keep in mind that it is not acceptable to have archive enhancements that
> > are not
> > compatible with already existing archive format enhancements from other
> > programs. See:
> >
> > http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/man/star/star.4.html
> >
> Why is this unacceptable?
>
> This becomes close to a requirement for appropriate programs, which
> are in Solaris. For programs sitting in some arbitrary server or ~home
> its nothing more than a nice thing for significant programs, for some
> very arbitrary definition of "significant". Since this is nothing more
> than a "nice thing", one should be "nice" rather than yelling.
Unless I'm off base, I think there's a misunderstanding by
the question of what's happening. Various archive programs
have been able to archive a files attribute files since attribute
files were introduced. The -/ option selects those attribute files
that include system attributes. It is analgous to -@ in that
respect.
Gary..
