Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Tar Keywords: tar Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 12:16:30 GMT References: <3910@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Organization: University of Twente, BSC-El Lines: 20 In <3910@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU> cechew@bruce.cs.monash.OZ.AU (Earl Chew) writes: >I wonder how many people have given up on tar and are using gnu-tar or pax? What does the minix society want? You can use minix-tar, but it is only tested on small file systems (I made a lot of changes when i didn't have a hard disk. Also, on an atari (on any 68k machine, or a 386) the memory problems are not a problem -- it aren't really memory leaks, just inefficient ways (when a memory leak is a recursive recurrent alloc-but-no-free problem). For POSIX, we need pax. Do we want a tar as well? If we want, i will incorporate all fixes (approx. 4-5 now) into tar. Please mail me. Or post if general interest. Klamer -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer