Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If I'm not mistaking "tar" only stores UID and not user names, and
> that's also one of my concerns.
At least for GNU tar, this is not true:
`--numeric-owner'
This option will notify `tar' that it should use numeric user and
group IDs when creating a `tar' file, rather than names.
I don't have any other tars available, but googel usually gives you a
couple of manpages.
Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
