Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!imada!jho From: jho@imada.ou.dk (Jens H. Ovesen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: TAR & Disk Corruption. Message-ID: <1991Jun19.142743.5299@imada.ou.dk> Date: 19 Jun 91 14:27:43 GMT References: Sender: news@imada.ou.dk (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark Lines: 32 fl@tools.uucp (Frank Lancaster) writes: >I released the tar programme into the public domain because I thought it a very >useful utility. But as people who have some kind of trouble using it or with >their hard disc always seem to see the fault in the programme I will now >stop supporting it. I am fed up! Some people would probably write to AT&T and I too find it a very useful utility. People using it without reading the documentation are fools anyway. Never use PD which is made for some HD purpose without reading doc. I must say it's a pitty you'll stop supporting it. There is bugs in all programs, and people using the programs should be welcome to report such bugs, without the author being "fed up". On the other hand, such reports should be in a kind language, those I've seen have been so. >It was a bad idea that tar was released with >submit/extract without the documentation, Yes it was. >but I was preparing a release for >comp.binaries.acorn with some changes suggested by several users. This will >now not be done. Come on. Why not? Don't get so offended. *I* would like to see it. >(I) do not have the time to support a PD programme which >is supposed to satifies everyone's idea of ease of use and safety. OK. That's honest talk. I hope you don't get more offended than you already are, Frank. I think a lot of people like Tar, myself included. I've been using it for a long time, I never had any problems. But then I read the documentation. Jens.