Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > ... > > Does gnu tar really did copy star behavior and now allows to use -C > > in extract > > mode? > > Surely gtar should not emulate star's behaviour? Surely it is only > correct to emulate the behaviour of some original Unix tar (without > prefix, s- or g- or otherwise), or follow the specifications of some > standards document?
If gnu tsr would follow the specifications from the Single UNIX specification http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html there would be less problems ;-) Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
