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On Samstag, 22. September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I'd like to hear some comments on app-arch/star. |
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> I've looked at its (IMHO really great) man page and didn't see anything |
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> obviously concerning. Most frequently used tar options (-c -x -p -z -j) |
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> seem to be in place. |
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> What I'd like to know: Is it fully backward compatible to tar? Could I |
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> safely unmerge tar and make a symlink from tar to star? |
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> Thanks in advance! |
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> Florian Philipp |
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http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/bench.html |
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>Turns out that star can't do "star xzf -", it will say "Can only compress |
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files." ROTFL! OK, so I used "|gzip -dc|star xf -" instead. What the hell. |
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seems that it is not 100% comaptible. |
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Since gnu tar, bsd tar and star each are different, I would not unmerge the |
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gnu tar. Is there any reason not to use the gnu tar? |
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