Joerg Schilling writes: > On Linux, there is frequently gtar installed as tar and gtar is not > respecting standards. Gtar in previous times was e.g. in conflict with > the standard regarding to -l. Aprox. 10 years ago, I files a bug report > against gtar for this standard deviation and it seems that they fixed > this bug.
Oh, I stand corrected, you're right. I looked at the (german) man page, which has not been updated yet. I sent a mail to bug-...@gnu.org about this. Wonko