On Samstag, 22. September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to hear some comments on app-arch/star. > > I've looked at its (IMHO really great) man page and didn't see anything > obviously concerning. Most frequently used tar options (-c -x -p -z -j) > seem to be in place. > > What I'd like to know: Is it fully backward compatible to tar? Could I > safely unmerge tar and make a symlink from tar to star? > > Thanks in advance! > > Florian Philipp
http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/bench.html >Turns out that star can't do "star xzf -", it will say "Can only compress files." ROTFL! OK, so I used "|gzip -dc|star xf -" instead. What the hell. seems that it is not 100% comaptible. Since gnu tar, bsd tar and star each are different, I would not unmerge the gnu tar. Is there any reason not to use the gnu tar? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
