15 Feb
2010
15 Feb
'10
11:18 a.m.
reminds me of the tar changes with the advent of gnutar... boy have I had a
lot of fun transporting files to find out when extracting it creates the
directories as files.....
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
Tar and cpio at least have a standard, well understood
format. Dump was
always only defined by the source.
Warner
On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com> wrote:
It used to be the case that dump was completely interchangeable
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between
the different BSDs, but software drift has rendered that not
the case anymore.
Which is why we (BitKeeper guys) don't even trust cpio/tar/etc. Wrote our
own, works everywhere including windows.
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