On Sunday 06 of December 2015 22:28:54 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > 1 - 4 applied (with slight modifications - 0a93c16c & 239441b5). > > As to 5, I have serious doubts. Of course hinting about the ? key > is a nice idea. However, the "Prepare volume" prompt is in its > present form for long enough time, so that some other software > might rely on its wording.
Definitely the prompt is not ideal now :/. If we want to be super-cautious, we could have additional option or environment variable to enforce the old prompt format? Do we know which software parses tar's prompt? Pavel