Re: Checksum error untaring xemacs-sumo-2005-01-18.tar

viteno> Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: viteno> Well, I don't know :-( I could use BSD tar the next time, viteno> but this might give other problems ... Please stick to GNU tar unless you have good reason to believe you're not changing one set of problems for another. ISTR that there is a standard for tar including long path names, now, but that nobody implements it yet. IIRC, Solaris tar doesn't do long path names, period, so we'd have to change our naming scheme to conform. :-( In any case, for a long time GNU tar was most portable and robust, and all the BSDs provide it in their ports/packages (it's the native tar on Mac OS X), it's available on Cygwin, and easily available for other OSes. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.