16 May
2002
16 May
'02
19:50
Clayton Cornell
Alexandr suggested a possible bug, but I don't agree.
Well, I rather suggested you don't use GNU tar on SuSE Linux because the behavior you describe is typical e.g. for the native tar on Solaris. My experience is that users who are very secretive about versions of their tools and OS often use a commercial Unix and seek help in Linux groups since they know they will get very fast response there. I don't say it's bad but they don't realize the XPG4,... based tools found in commercial Unixes sometimes differ a lot from GNU tools and thus they waste time of people who try to help them. I don't say it is your case, it's just my experience from other e-mail lists. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se