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Re: [Bug-tar] octal reading in spec
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [Bug-tar] octal reading in spec |
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Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:51:18 +0300 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Yes, but the fields must be "terminated by one or more <space> or NUL
> characters."
Yes, of course.
> No doubt GNU tar was mimicking 7th Edition Unix 'tar' here.
> 7th Edition Unix 'tar' first set the entire checksum area to spaces;
[..]
> I suppose you could change GNU tar to match the Solaris behavior if
> you like, as that's a bit cleaner.
OK, thank you.
Regards,
Sergey