Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The star commandline interface completely matches the historical tar behavior
> and GNU make has big deviations from this interface (GNU tar even does not
> work as expeceted if you play a bit with the order of options). [...]
> The only exception star use with the SUSv2 CLI is that star does not
> allow you to use 'star cf file args' when 'file' exists and is a plain
> file with a size > 0. This is to try to avoid overwritten source files
> from a lazy written command line.
I call that a significant deviation from historical practice, in
particular as it is an intended one. But with your self-righteous
attitude, it must of course become negligible.
Gunnar
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