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[Bug-tar] Re: VMS file attribute issue with gnutar / file utilities.
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
[Bug-tar] Re: VMS file attribute issue with gnutar / file utilities. |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:45:59 +0300 |
[Cc-ing to bug-tar].
> VMS has files that the information on how to interpret the structure
> is stored in the file header, not the file it self.
>
> Currently gnu tar is not recording this information, and I am trying
> to determine a portable way to record it.
>
> The best hack that I can come up with is to mangle the name of the
> file to contain that information, and demangle it on the unpack.
I would suggest using PAX headers for that.
Regards,
Sergey
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