On 09/02/2013 09:22 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Sascha Peilicke
wrote: [snip'ing everything]
Guys, I've been away for two weeks and reading this thread gives me a very nice right-back-at-home feel. It had everything a good Factory thread should have: love, hate, flames, history lessons, smartass'ing, pointers to unpackaged software and POSIX standards (I missed an RFC though), even ISBN numbers and lastly, no resolution. This is what I call perfect e-mail entertainment. I want more of that!
p.s. To my knowledge I'm the only one replying to this thread that is yet under 30 and thus I don't trust anything that was written here that isn't yet found on Wikipedia ;-)
I no longer remember the exact content of the discussion, so I cannot comment the first paragraph.
Regarding Wikipadia: don't trust Wikipedia, Wikipedia is dominated by people that are interested in political content rather than on correct text.
It's an 80% solution, true. But I was joking anyway :-)
TAR is 34 years old, the oldest "free" implementation (star) is 31 years old and Wikipedia mentiones "pax" but an own article is prevented by those political people. I am working with UNIX since 31 years and this is the reason why I had the chance to learn a lot of the background information that helps to understand things that do not look reasonable in the first view.
Jörg
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