Charles Swiger <[email protected]> wrote: > No; it's not considered an error to create a tar file which archived zero > files.
In addition: modern tar implementations like star (that implement buffering) would have problems to delay opening the archive until the first "usable" file was found. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
