[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: tar incompatibility with linux

[Joern Michael Krueger]

> > Like Dennis wrote: friends don't let friends use
> GNU stuff. And why should they, when standard System
> V tools are available, for free, with source code
> inclusive?
> 
> ok, i'll give the sysV tar a try and see, if it does
> work then all it 
> needs is gzip ability built in and I wouldn't have to
> look back.  I'm 
> surprised you guys hate GNU so much though.
It's not hate -- it's a hard lesson learned.
You need to know when to use GNU tool and when you better don't.
In a datacenter running some flavours of *nix and standard tools like tar 
working on only a fraction of systems is deadly.
If build-in compression is important to you you should try star. On the other 
hand a 
gzcat test.tar.gz |tar xf - or a gunzip < test.tar.gz | tar xf- isn't that hard 
to remeber either and it should work on every *nix.
 
 
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