On 5/24/07, Richard L. Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If their documentation is accurate, the current version can read and write POSIX tar archives, it just doesn't create them by default (requires --format=posix option to do so). While they may have some reason for that, I have trouble imagining what it might be. I can understand backwards compatibility, but for that, it should be enough that it _can_ automatically read or (possibly with an option) write either format, and not matter so much which it does by default, in which case the default for writing really ought to be the standards compliant format.
Also their NEWS file says setting DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT environment variable to POSIX will select POSIX output format by default. If this is the _only_ problem with GNU tar, then we can close this thread now :-) thanks / bvk-chaitanya _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
