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Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.13.92 suggestion
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] tar-1.13.92 suggestion |
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Date: |
07 Jan 2004 11:10:59 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
"Excoffier, Denis (Ste C.S.)" <address@hidden> writes:
> I suggest a new
> `--no-date'
> option, in order to specify that `tar' should use 0 (1970-01-01)
> as the date of members when creating archives,
Nice suggestion, but I vaguely recall that 0 caused problems with
other (non-GNU) programs like 'find'. It might be better to have the
user specify the date (as is the case with --owner etc.) and to warn
in the documentation that 0 might not work.