> So perhaps tar should allow subsequent (as opposed to recursive) reads of > the same file?
Ahh, I see now what happens there :), thanks. Yes. That would make sense. .. && do we really need to parse all options? Wouldn't it be better to artificially bound the -T FILE parsing power? I mean, this is starting to have Turing machine power :) and such lazy option evaluation probably hides a lot of surprises... and users could potentially think everything is supported. Trying again, wait .. I can observe that the lazy opt_parsing is broken even for the -C option: $ ls po/ configure $ ls po/ # (empty) $ cat FILE -Cpo configure $ tar -cf test.tar -T FILE (this successes!) $ tar -tf test.tar configure Pavel
