Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.23: Problem under Solaris 10 - incorrect GNU header contents

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Armistead, Jason
<address@hidden> wrote:
> My problem still remains ... and since I'm trying to shut off that old 
> Solaris 10 system, I'd like to know that the archives it generates are indeed 
> "standard-compliant" rather than ending up with gigabytes of "digital trash" 
> which are going to be unrecoverable on other systems (one of the reasons I 
> was trying to open my resultant archives with 7-Zip and WinZip).

The entire original email was focused on ustar functionality, by my
read.  Perhaps you can repeat your experiment, bearing in mind that
you're expecting a GNU Tar archive, and let us know what happens?

Also, 7-zip claims to support "TAR" format, but doesn't say which
format - are you sure it's designed to support GNU Tar archives?  If
you create a tar file with --format=ustar, can you read it with 7-zip?

Dustin

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