"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Speaks in a small voice:
>
> *but all versions of GNU tar are not compatible with each other, some
> versions have different command-line options meaning it isn't truly
> portable...*
>
This is not true ;-)
There are a lot of GNU tar archives that cannot be read by GNU tar because
of bugs in GNU tar. Most of these archives are readable by star except for
the archives that contain sparse files > 4 GB.
Jörg
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