Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Unix without tar? Message-ID: <2419@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 6 Sep 89 17:59:30 GMT References: <10889@smoke.BRL.MIL> <216@bbxeng.UUCP> <2413@auspex.auspex.com> <229@bbxeng.UUCP> Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 16 >The answer he got says that the 3B2 tar is not necessarily compatible >with the industry standard tar... Sounds like another turkey - the S5R3 "tar" is minimally changed from the V7 one, so unless they consider some "tar" other than the one they themselves put out 10 years ago to be "the industry standard tar" I have no idea what they're talking about. Even the BSD "tar" isn't massively changed from the V7 one (at least not externally, although later versions have been somewhat optimized internally) - the default block size is different, but you can override that on the command line, and it puts out entries for directories as well as files, but 1) you can tell it not to with the "o" flag and 2) those entries don't seem to do anything to older "tar"s other than cause some annoying warnings to be printed out (the directory modes aren't set from the "tar" file, but that's life.