On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:38:47 +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > It depends on what you call "proper".
Naïve as I am, just when I tar /home/users/, that it doesn't bug out on long filenames/paths. Most of those come without the users being guilty; from titles of movies and MP3s. > You're just using a gnu extension. Gnu tar archives are not portable. > When do you want to encounter that? ONn archive build or archive extract? IMHO, it seems to work when I tar and untar with gtar. I'd prefer the native tar, though. But its error messages on build don't make me feel at ease. Uwe
