*** Hadrien Lacour [2020-11-25 19:27]:
>The tl;dr is that you either use POSIX ustar with its path length and file size
>limits, or use GNU tar when your input doesn't fit; pax was supposed to be the
>replacement, but is more or less unused/ignored.
In my opinion it is better to improve pax suppor
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 22:49:32 +0100
Mattias Andrée wrote:
Dear Mattias,
> Concerning farbfeld, it is quite a different thing to create a new
> simpler standard than supporting an already existing but complex
> standard. Farbfeld was a good first step in moving towards simpler
> image formats, alt
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:32:36 +0100
Thomas Oltmann wrote:
Dear Thomas,
> > if gnu tar proprietary?
>
> No. I think Laslo meant 'proprietary' as in 'ad hoc' or 'incompatible'
> (with standard implementations).
yeah, I used a pretty "drastic" word to describe it. All will agree
that GNU-tar is
Hi all,
Laslo Hunhold wrote:
> Dear Cág,
> Even if a suckless implementation of GNU tar was possible, would you
> really want it to be included? I'd rather like to encourage people to
> use standard non-proprietary file formats.
Yeah, I think I would. tar(1) is one of those cases where a comprom
> if gnu tar proprietary?
No. I think Laslo meant 'proprietary' as in 'ad hoc' or 'incompatible'
(with standard implementations).
> there's probably no way to implement those GNU-extensions in a good and
> suckless way. The FSF has the bad habit for their
> standard-implementations that they tend
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:28:02 -0500
Cág wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Laslo Hunhold wrote:
> > Dear Cág,
> > Even if a suckless implementation of GNU tar was possible, would you
> > really want it to be included? I'd rather like to encourage people to
> > use standard non-proprietary file formats.
>
>
if gnu tar proprietary?
Nov 25, 2020, 16:49 by d...@frign.de:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:51:22 -0500
> Cág wrote:
>
> Dear Cág,
>
>> A quick question: for "POSIX tar archive (GNU)" files tar prints
>> tar: unsupported tar-filetype L
>>
>> Is GNU tar support out of scope?
>>
>
> there's probably
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 05:49:56PM +0100, Laslo Hunhold wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:51:22 -0500
> Cág wrote:
>
> Dear Cág,
>
> > A quick question: for "POSIX tar archive (GNU)" files tar prints
> > tar: unsupported tar-filetype L
> >
> > Is GNU tar support out of scope?
>
> there's probably no
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:51:22 -0500
Cág wrote:
Dear Cág,
> A quick question: for "POSIX tar archive (GNU)" files tar prints
> tar: unsupported tar-filetype L
>
> Is GNU tar support out of scope?
there's probably no way to implement those GNU-extensions in a good and
suckless way. The FSF has th
Hi,
A quick question: for "POSIX tar archive (GNU)" files tar prints
tar: unsupported tar-filetype L
Is GNU tar support out of scope?
Cheers
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