Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thing is, what is on the CD works for me. I been using cp for a long
> time and unless it stops working, I don't plan to switch. My current
Didn't you complain about gcp?
> According to other posts, you wrote the program. Why not talk to the
> people that make the CD and make your points on why it should be
> included? If they are valid then maybe they will. If not, life goes on.
AFAIR, the people who cretaed this CD have not been mentioned.
But people who work on a Life CD should know the oldest free TAR implementation
and people who use GNU tar should know about the various bugs in GNU tar and
why it makes sense to avoid GNU tar if you know that star is available.
Star is written and maintained by the same person since 27 years while
GNU tar is the first victim of the social deficits of RMS. RMS did cause the
GNU tar maintainers to run away three times because they could not stand the
paternalism from RMS. GNU tar does not support any Linux specific feature
altough it would be needed, star does support Linux specific features.
The only explanation I see for GNU tar usually being the only tar on Linux is
that there are scripts that depend on Bugs in GNU tar.....
Sysadmins of bigger sites prefer star for many tasks that could also be done
by other software. If you like to reduce the time to work on some tasks, you
first need to spend some hours to learn about the features in star. In total
you save time....
I know it was not you but another person did mention some text written by
a person called "fele" who has no clue. Discussing the way to do work best
cannot be based on people who have no clue and starting to use new software
always takes some time. People who know me know that I am always happy to help
explaining how to use my software but I am doing this only if there is interest.
Jörg
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