Jon Trulson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > >> For some time I had "gtar" as my tar but it was broken too often (it > >> doesn't properly unpack certain archives I encountered) > > > > 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 'heard' you say that on a number of occasions... I've been > using gnu tar for about 15 years or so, on everything from FreeBSD > to IBM AIX, and I've never had the problems you mention.
If you usually only do simple things you may have a different private experience. I found that many of the extra features do not work as expected (see my previous mail) and I have been contated by variouy people who asked me whether star could read GNU tar archives that GNU tar does not like. 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]
