On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Joern Michael Krueger wrote:
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.
I didn't realize GNU tar has these kind of issues, I thought using gnu tar
on both systems might be ok. i'll test this out and see, but I started
getting away from the sysV tools years ago, for a reason, plus the source
code wasn't always available. I've had no problems with the other gnu
programs.
I found it interesting that it would only work when the block size was set
to 1, its a hint.
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