On September 17, 2002 09:20 pm, Jon Scott Stevens wrote: > > Er, you mean perhaps that BSD tar doesn't yet support the > > non-standard GNU extensions? > > Like being able to support simple things like directory paths longer than > 255 characters? If it isn't a standard, it should be!
Err, I think you mean > 100, up to 255 chars. The Posix standard supports this too, but in a different way (of course). GNU claims they were there first, but I know POSIX used to have stuff in committee for a long time, so it's hard to know who was "really" first. In the article you point out: > Interesting history on the issue... > http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_node/tar_117.html#SEC112 They admit that they aren't POSIX conformant, and claim that they will be, and will do it in a different way than GNUtar does at present. Do you know if this article is up to date? Well I guess it must be, it's on gnu.org. Obviously it would be good if all tars could read each others' archives. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
