Horst wrote,
> Ahh -- Octal ! "twelve-characer octal strings". I used my hex viewer to
>look at a very simple tar file before posting, but couldn't make sence of
>it.
On my system (a full install of Slackware 12.1), I found a description of
the tar format in the file /usr/include/tar.h. (You
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:03:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Neil Parker
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] ls script help
...>
timestamps. "tar", for example, archives only one-second-resolution
timestamps, as twelve-characer octal strings...this is mandated by a POSIX
standard, and for the sake of backward compa
