On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:32:36 +0100 Thomas Oltmann <thomas.oltmann....@gmail.com> 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 non-standard, and I think in a way also "proprietary", as it only belongs to one implementation. > While I generally agree with Laslo, I'm in favor of supporting *a > select few* of GNU tar's extensions. > Granted, most of them are pretty niche (insane), like support for > files that span over multiple volumes. > But there's at least one useful extension: Long file name support. > That extension is also what Cág's error message "unsupported > tar-filetype L" is about. > I'm pretty confident that, with this extension alone, you would be > able to at least extract most GNU tar archives. > > I could try writing a patch for this, if people are interested. That indeed sounds interesting! With best regards Laslo
