On Thu, February 12, 2009 03:01, Joerg Schilling wrote: > "David Dyer-Bennet" <d...@dd-b.net> wrote: > >> > Inflammatory, maybe. Incorrect, I don't think so. Joerg has made a >> > fairly convincing, and consistent, point of showing where the >> > reliability problems with GNU tar lie - in bugs that were filed 16 >> > years ago. You even acknowledged them in your response. Out of context >> > editing of his posts do not help your argument. >> >> I haven't looked at the bug he cites. What I do know is that this >> discussion is the first time I've heard of it, and I've been using >> various >> tar implementations pretty frequently since, oh, let's say 1986 > > This is an intersting claim..... > > In 1986 it was pretty impossible for nearly all people to play with > "different tar implementations".
You're trying to read too much into this; I'm only claiming that I started using multiple Unixes and various toolsets regularly for work around 1986. I think it was a PC-AT Unix (286) and an XT Unix that year, and in 1987 I believe I had my first contact with SunOS. Earlier in the 80s I'd used DEC's Unix while I was working out in Marlboro, but not really "for work". -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
