At 9:49 AM +0200 9/4/07, demerphq wrote: >I was wondering, are POSIX compliant tar readers commonplace on VMS >these days? Specifically if you pack a directory tree using >Archive::Tar will the commonplace readers extract it properly? Winzip >for instance is not POSIX aware and unpacks them into a single flat >directory.
vmstar, the most commonly used tar reader on VMS for many years, does preserve directory trees. There is also a port of GNU tar around, which I assume does the same things it does elsewhere. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
