[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar cf - directory |md5sum
03ad652d93447a92eb944cd6acae0471  -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar cf - directory |md5sum
03ad652d93447a92eb944cd6acae0471  -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar cf - directory |md5sum
03ad652d93447a92eb944cd6acae0471  -

nothing out of the ordinary, right? on the dot like an English train...

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar icf - directory |md5sum
03ad652d93447a92eb944cd6acae0471  -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar icf - directory |md5sum
03ad652d93447a92eb944cd6acae0471  -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar icf - directory |md5sum
03ad652d93447a92eb944cd6acae0471  -

"i" for bzip2. still no surprise.

however:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum
484497aa0d7e1bb391a73cc8b42acce2  -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum
552bbc02b0b2b5b142a425d476f0d5c0  -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ tar zcf - directory |md5sum
792afdaf2be839dfccc1c91dfd4f726b  -

what the fsck is going on?! is gzip adding some odd time stamp or
something?!

-- 
The silver lining
Ira Abramov
http://ira.abramov.org/email/

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