Apostolos Syropoulos <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ > > > > for a list of utilities that are part of the base OS. > > Althouth pax is there, still I cannot find tar in > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html
In 1987, there was only tar in the standard. Then AT&T tried to change that to cpio and succeeded to add cpio for the first 1988 POSIX standard. Then the so called tar-wars started and the standard commitee later agreed on introducing a new program that nobody likes (pax). The last standard that mentioned tar and cpio is SUSv2 (UNIX-98). POSIX.1-2001 only mentions pax but the the default archive type is tar based. > Sun did a lot of great things but also many stupid things, so let's keep it > out > of the > discussion. I do not want to replace anything, I just want to be able to use > GNUtar > and many other GNU utilities. On my machines I do use GNU things only as the > "standard" utilities cause many problems when trying to compile standard > tools. Why do you use GNU tar? Do you get something from gtar you won't get from other implementations? > > BTW: star is able to unpack more archives created by GNU tar than GNU tar > > ;-) > > Star on the other side create POSIX compliant archives. > > OK. I have star on my system. The question is why not include all three > different > tar's? I have no problem with this as long as GNU tar does not become the default, because this would create many compatibility problems. I however know that people who know all tar implementations rarely use something different than star. 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 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
