Tim Kientzle wrote:
In order to test bsdtar's automatic format detection and
support for variant tar formats, I'm looking for sample
archives generated by a variety of tar programs.
By popular demand, I've created a shell script that
builds a directory with a variety of interesting
and unusual thin
Hi,
Tim Kientzle wrote on Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:50:22PM -0700:
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> >How about posting such a tar somewhere so people can retar it with
> >whatever they have?
>
> That would require that people be able to untar
> whatever I provide. There are enough differences
> among tar implementations (
Max Laier wrote:
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:57, Tim Kientzle wrote:
<...>
An ideal test archive would not be too big (< 16k) and
have as many as possible of the following:
* regular file
* directory
* hardlink
* symlink
* fifo, socket, device node, etc.
* regular file with very long path
On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:57, Tim Kientzle wrote:
<...>
> An ideal test archive would not be too big (< 16k) and
> have as many as possible of the following:
>* regular file
>* directory
>* hardlink
>* symlink
>* fifo, socket, device node, etc.
>* regular file with very long
In order to test bsdtar's automatic format detection and
support for variant tar formats, I'm looking for sample
archives generated by a variety of tar programs.
In particular, I'm looking for tar archives generated by:
* Very old versions of tar (pre-1980 is especially
interesting)
* Vario
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