Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] suggested:
So sprach Bill Davidsen am Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:02:15AM -0400:
It is certainly not untrue in the sense that some are. GNU tar will
produce warnings when using certain tar files created by Sun tar.
So the Sun tar needs to be fixed!
The
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13 14:55:48 2001
As you can see, the files are identical, although tar was not able to list
them.
Further, I tried your mk and mk2 scripts with tar and star. You are right,
star is able to process file names which are not POSIX conformant while tar
fails on
At 15:44 13/06/01 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13
14:55:48 2001
As you can see, the files are identical, although tar was not able to list
them.
Further, I tried your mk and mk2 scripts with tar and star. You are
right,
star is able to process
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13 16:17:10 2001
I use cpio to do backup and occasionally use tar ( on sun ) and GNU tar (
I cannot recommend cpio. There are 6 completely incompatible archive
versions. None of them are is ablt to handle large files ( 2 gb).
Fir this reason, the only archive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are there any problems using zip to distribute cdrecord? From you mail it
seems that you do not like Sun using zip archives. Actually I think
www.sunfreeware.com (probably sponsored by sun) is providing packages in
sun package form in GNU zip fomat.
I will not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13 14:55:48 2001
As you can see, the files are identical, although tar was not able to list
them.
Further, I tried your mk and mk2 scripts with tar and star. You are right,
star is able to process file names which are not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
I use cpio to do backup and occasionally use tar ( on sun ) and GNU tar (
on linux ). It appears to me that most unix developers used tar. Wondering
which tar they used? Probably they do not care as long as nobody complain.
As far as I know the GNU tar format can
So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:26:26PM +0200:
I will not go to a nonstandard archive format.
Uhm - please define 'standard'! Is it, what most people use and which
creates the least fuzz, or is it something else?
Alexander Skwar
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To: Bill Davidsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So sprach Bill Davidsen am Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:02:15AM -0400:
It is certainly not untrue in the sense that some are. GNU tar will
produce warnings when using certain tar files created by Sun tar.
So the Sun tar needs to be fixed!
No GNU tar needs to
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 13 18:24:52 2001
So sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] am Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:26:26PM +0200:
I will not go to a nonstandard archive format.
Uhm - please define 'standard'! Is it, what most people use and which
creates the least fuzz, or is it something else?
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 5 13:08:44 2001
On 05.06.2001 10:16:32 Joerg Schilling wrote:
The last test I did is about half a year ago and this GNU tar was definitely
_not_ POSIX compliant.
Okay, but what kind of problems might there be? Or, could you create a
completely POSIX
So sprach Joerg Schilling am Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:37:45AM +0200:
Just try the test suite on
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/
Uhm, pardon me, but where is the test suite? Is it
testscripts/long.ustar.gz and the scripts mk and mk2? GNU tar doesn't
produce any errors when
On 05.06.2001 02:48:21 Carsten Neumann wrote:
I also never had any trouble using GNU tar to extract the archives.
But maybe there are _outdated_versions_ ( ;-)) ) of GNU tar which had trouble
with them.
Yeah, that's what I'm beginning to think as well. Some ancient versions may
have
On 05.06.2001 10:16:32 Joerg Schilling wrote:
The last test I did is about half a year ago and this GNU tar was definitely
_not_ POSIX compliant.
Okay, but what kind of problems might there be? Or, could you create a
completely POSIX compliant tar archiv which is not extractable with GNU
So sprach Joerg Schilling am Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:22:05PM +0200:
The files are located on:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha ...
NOTE: These tar archives are 100% ansi compatible. Solaris 2.x tar and GNU
tar may get some minor trouble.
What does make you think that
From: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So sprach Joerg Schilling am Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 07:22:05PM +0200:
The files are located on:
=20
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha ...
=20
NOTE:These tar archives are 100% ansi compatible. Solaris 2.x tar and GNU
tar may
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