Re: The tar format problem continues

Ben Reser wrote:
> 2) Availability of archivers that read the same archives.
>
> But even if we use star. It doesn't solve the problem with winzip.
> Winzip aparently doens't read ustar formated archives. Which is the
> POSIX standard tar format. So even if we use star to produce ustar
> formats, winzip won't be able to handle them.

Ehum. Does this mean that WinZip will handle paths longer than 100
characters fine in GNU tar's tar format, but that it does not handle
ustar format? And Solaris tar handles ustar format properly, but does
not handle GNU tar's tar format?

What a mess.

-- Naked

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Received on Wed Mar 17 21:39:14 2004