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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Thing is, what is on the CD works for me. I been using cp for a long |
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> time and unless it stops working, I don't plan to switch. My current |
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Didn't you complain about gcp? |
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> According to other posts, you wrote the program. Why not talk to the |
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> people that make the CD and make your points on why it should be |
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> included? If they are valid then maybe they will. If not, life goes on. |
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AFAIR, the people who cretaed this CD have not been mentioned. |
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But people who work on a Life CD should know the oldest free TAR implementation |
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and people who use GNU tar should know about the various bugs in GNU tar and |
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why it makes sense to avoid GNU tar if you know that star is available. |
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Star is written and maintained by the same person since 27 years while |
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GNU tar is the first victim of the social deficits of RMS. RMS did cause the |
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GNU tar maintainers to run away three times because they could not stand the |
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paternalism from RMS. GNU tar does not support any Linux specific feature |
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altough it would be needed, star does support Linux specific features. |
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The only explanation I see for GNU tar usually being the only tar on Linux is |
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that there are scripts that depend on Bugs in GNU tar..... |
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Sysadmins of bigger sites prefer star for many tasks that could also be done |
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by other software. If you like to reduce the time to work on some tasks, you |
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first need to spend some hours to learn about the features in star. In total |
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you save time.... |
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I know it was not you but another person did mention some text written by |
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a person called "fele" who has no clue. Discussing the way to do work best |
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cannot be based on people who have no clue and starting to use new software |
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always takes some time. People who know me know that I am always happy to help |
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explaining how to use my software but I am doing this only if there is interest. |
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Jörg |
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EMail:joerg@××××××××××××××××××××××××.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin |
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js@××××××××××××.de (uni) |
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joerg.schilling@××××××××××××××××.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ |
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URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily |
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