On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 11:35 PM, Ian Darwin wrote:
>
> They admit that they aren't POSIX conformant, and claim that they will
> be, and will
> do it in a different way than GNUtar does at present. Do you know if
> this article
> is up to date? Well I guess it must be, it's on gnu.org.
>
> Obviously it would be good if all tars could read each others'
> archives.
[pier@bubbles] ~ $ gnutar --help
GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk archive,
and
can restore individual files from the archive.
[....]
Archive format selection:
--posix write a POSIX conformant archive
[...]
GNU tar cannot read nor produce `--posix' archives. If POSIXLY_CORRECT
is set in the environment, GNU extensions are disallowed with `--posix'.
Support for POSIX is only partially implemented, don't count on it yet.
[...]
[pier@bubbles] ~ $ gnutar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.13
Copyright (C) 1988, 92,93,94,95,96,97,98, 1999 Free Software
Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
[pier@bubbles] ~ $
Pier
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