Thornton Prime wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
>
> > > tar xvfI bzip2ed.tar.bz2
> >
> > In a future version of GNU tar, the -I flag will be replaced with -j to
> > provide cross-compatiblity with Solaris, which uses -I for something
> > else.
>
> Bah.
Yes.
> While it makes sense,
sort of,
> IMNSHO Solaris should be pressed to be compatible
> with GNU tar. GNU tar is far superior to Sun's tar, and now there are far
> more people using GNU tar than there ever have been Solaris tar users.
>
> One of the first things I do on any Solaris machine I get is install GNU
> tar (the very first being that I install gzip).
Absolutely. Likewise. I had the same reaction. Solaris tar is not
only feature poor, it's also brain damaged. (Try creating an archive
using absolute paths and then restoring using relative paths. If you
figure out how, drop me a line. But careful you don't hose a machine
while trying.)
But just try convincing Sun "[We] will never embrace Linux" Microsystems
of any idea that didn't come out of their own house or exist in the Unix
community prior to about 1992. The difference is that the GNU tar
maintainer can just say, okay, there's name space overlap here, one of
us has to give and Sun sure won't, so it might as well be us.
Bah.
--
Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
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