Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
With the likelihood that if I were to pack the sumo packages with
Solaris tar (for want of a better name) all the GNU tar users would
start seeing strange things and start complaining.
I doubt that, but I am not sure.
Sandra> You might want to look at the directory tree. Perhaps
the filnames
Sandra> are just too annoyingly long.
Any idea how long "too annoyingly long" would be?
No idea, but search for a program called 'star' by Joerg Schilling. He
claims compliance with the relevant standards and regularly bashes GNU
tar for its extensions. Anyway, he probably has a link to the standard
on his webpage.
Gunnar