----- Original Message ----- From: "Sergey Poznyakoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> GNU tar is broken.  POSIX specifically allows for vendor extensions (such
> as the SCHILY.* extensions which were introduced by star), and the correct
> way to handle them is by printing a warning message, ignoring the
> extension,

Yes, indeed.  It is fixed in the repository.  Thanks for reporting.


Thanks guys. As always a pleasure par-taking in a "can do" environment
even if it was just to raise the issue which then others "did fix" :)

   Steve

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