Re: Tar filesystem for the GNU Hurd

[Joerg Schilling]

>From: "Ludovic Courtès" <address@hidden>

>On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 02:44:43PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Just a note: IIRC, the paxutils code fails with the POSIX test so I would not
>> all it safe...

>What's the current status of paxutils? It seems that we can't get it yet on
>ftp.gnu.org.

>Are you planning on making also some sort of a library out of the core code of
>pax or GNU tar?

I am not involved with paxutils or GNU tar.

>From time to time I did send bug reports with limited success.
There was a bug that I reported in 1994 - it has been fixed in GNU tar
about a year ago...

>Final question: where can we get star (which seems to be a "reference
>implementation" of tar from my understanding)?

Well I already sensd the URL last week, but here it is again:

        ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star


Jörg

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