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Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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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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Nope. I didn't complain about. Never heard of until this thread that I |
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can recall. I haven't complained about gcp, cp or anything that I recall. |
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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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Well, I asked the question if star was on the Gentoo live CD. It was |
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posted that it was not on the CD. I don't know myself so I asked. Then |
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it was mentioned that I should ask for it to be on the CD when I don't |
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plan to use star anyway. Since it doesn't matter to me one way or the |
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other, I thought it may be better for someone who does want it on the CD |
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to ask rather than me, who doesn't really matter either way. |
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It is true that you are very helpful with whatever you are familiar |
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with. Thanks much for that. We all need a little help from time to |
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time. We all run into that stump sometimes. Heck, I got a big ole |
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stump in my front yard that I been bumping with the tractor. I think |
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the ants are doing better than the tractor. o_O They just take a |
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little longer. lol |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |