On 23 Apr 2002 at 18:19, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > On technical grounds, it might be hard to shoehorn Wget's mode of > operation into what `tar' expects. For example, Wget might need to > revisit directories in random order. I'm not sure if a tar stream is > allowed to do that.
You can add stuff to a tar stream in a pretty much random order - that's effectively what you get when you use tar's -r option to append to the end of an existing archive. (I used to use that with tapes quite often, once upon a time.)
