Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 21:47:09 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: blapp@attic.ch, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, Tim Vanderhoek <hoek@hwcn.org> Subject: Re: GNU-Tar should be updated Message-ID: <8903.898663629@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:55:06 PDT." <199806240155.SAA00812@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > Something like that is really ugly, a unix that can't backup > > it's own files ... something like that I only know from M$ ... > > This is a failing of the tar format; a newer tar won't help you. FWIW, cpio does it also unless you use one of the new sysv-ish formats. The major/minor size limitations of the standard format for both tar and cpio archives goes back a long ways. :-( - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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