On 6/26/08, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Calling scpio is similar to call: star -x -U -install -force-remove > > > -remove-recursive > > > > > > See man page for mire information. > > > > You are using the correct word despite the spelling. Yes, your man > > > If you find a way to write 50 pages of information into less than a single > page, > you are welcome!
I may give it a try at some point .. not today. > > > The reason why you did missunderstand things may be that Sun tar > > > and Sun cpio implement a lot of undocumented behavior that is not > > > in the standard and thus unknown to most users. > > > > Where is this standard that you refer to? At the OpenGroup ? > > > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/cpio.html those seem to be man pages and not actual standards or file spec documents. One would think, based on those pages, that any sort of tar file will work fine using any binary arrangement of data. Dennis _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
