[email protected] wrote: > > >On Jan 17, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > >> A serious problem with GNU tar is that it is unreliable and in a > >> signficant > >> number of cases is unable to read back it's own archives. > > > >I've been using tar on linux since about 1996 and I've never had such > >a failure, nor have I ever heard of anyone having one. I'm not saying > >that it can't happen, I'm just saying that the experience of the > >community is that's an extremely reliable tool. > > > Anyone he's ever unpacked a Solaris archive will see the problem > (files unpacked at the wrong location)
Casper, please try to quote correctly. I did never write the text your "quoting" asiciates to me. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
