Subject: Re: [osol-code] Re: [Fwd: [ksh93-integration-discuss]
ksh93-integration pre-reviewround"two" (webrev 2007-05-14)]
"Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - -T This option omplements a completely undocumented archive format.
> > I cannot even discuss it, except that it is also based on obsolete
> > (and
> > not vendor tagged) POSIX.1-1988 extensions.
> >
> > This list is nearly complete, there are some more undocumented features
> > that do
> > not live in visible options but in undocumented behavior in case of specific
> > usage.
> >
> >
> > I could look whether I find a complete list of undocumented
> > features/behavior.
>
> Well, I'm willing to help you implement what's missing if you're
> willing to move forward.
>
> I think star is a great tool, but I really think it needs to be
> completely compatible with sun tar as much as humanly possible.
>
> I would love to see it replace the existing tar if only because it is
> so much faster and provides a lot more functionality that would be
> useful to many users.
This sounds good!
BTW: we may continue this specific discussion on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in case it is no longer of general opensolaris-code interest.
> That and it provides a GNU tar compatible mode too if I remember right.
Correct, it does not implent everything but it implements enought to be able
to extract all GNU tar archives that are published.
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/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-code mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
