On 24/05/07, BVK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 :-)
Its performance sucks compared to star?
Seriously. I can't think of any reason why I would use gnu tar instead
of star if I had a choice.
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"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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