Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball

[Stroller]

On 1 May 2009, at 10:26, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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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?

Stroller.