Sascha Peilicke <speilicke@suse.com> 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. 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 -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org