Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!atha!auvax.uucp!lyndon From: lyndon@auvax.uucp (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Unix without tar? Message-ID: <1084@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> Date: 6 Sep 89 17:42:19 GMT References: <2402@auspex.auspex.com> Sender: news@cs.AthabascaU.CA Lines: 18 guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: > I remember one case where >it was claimed that a vendor offering a binary version built from one of >those AT&T source versions had removed "tar", but hopefully that vendor >was tarred and feathered for that, and served as an example to others. ^^^ How, if they didn't ship the code ? :-) What I really like is the way AT&T is attempting to eliminate tar by breaking all the option processing: for no good reason, options have to be in a specific order. I also love the arbitrary 10K block limit enforced by tar when writing tapes. Of course, AT&T's 9 track support is so brain- dead that this should be considered a feature. Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University {alberta,decwrl,lsuc}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA CTIX-USERS has moved to: ctix-users[-request]@cs.AthabascaU.CA