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- To: gwyn@brl, hoptoad!gnu@sally.utexas.edu
- Cc: std-unix@sally.utexas.edu
- From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Jim Cottrell)
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- ? From: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP (John Gilmore)
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- ? I don't know anybody who's ever had trouble reading a tar tape...
- ? All versions of tar are compatible.
-
- Depends on what you mean. I have had troubles reading the original
- TPC V6 & V7 distribution tapes under 4.2 BSD. Perhaps the format has
- changed since then. Anyone have a tar that will read these tapes?
-
- ? There is the additional advantage of a public domain implementation of
- ? the proposed tar standard (written by me, available from mod.sources),
-
- Kudos, John. I hope you also fixed special files as well. Ever try and
- make a tar tape of the root? It barfs when it gets to /dev.
-
- ? From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@brl.arpa>
-
- ? In the real world one HAS to have a working "tar" if one exchanges files...
-
- If I were paranoid I might think TPC was trying to limit this.
-
- ? I would prefer to remove tape archive format altogether from what is
- ? supposed to be a program/system interface specification (1003.1). There
- ? simply isn't a single universal interchange medium anyway (not every
- ? system has 1/2" magtape, for example).
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- Tarchives are useful even they are never put on tape.
-
- If it is still not clear, I favor tar as well. Perhaps the features
- that motivated cpio's creation should be added to tar, as John has done.
-
- I would also like to see an option not to cross mount points, that is
- stay on the same partition. This should be added to several major utilities.
-
- (Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
- I hope I bought the right relish... zzzzzzzzz...
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- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 19
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