Pavel Raiskup <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > what are the reasons to not take member name argument './file' and 'file' > equivalently? So far I found only one point in documentation that it is > essential because tar preserves filenames (2.7. How to List Archives).
Are you asking this because of a possible file name length reduction? Star strips off ./ before archiving files since 28 years, this is longer than gtar exists and I did not get any complaint about that fact since than. 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
