Re: tar -cvfX save.tar foo ./dirtosave/..

From: Joerg Schilling (js_at_cs.tu-berlin.de)
Date: 08/30/03 

Date: 30 Aug 2003 10:30:20 GMT

In article <38hmib.jgg.ln@news.it.uc3m.es>,
Peter T. Breuer <ptb@oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote:

>>>4) Can someone track down the history of the POSIX specs that Joerg
>>> holds up as examples of GNU's failure? Specifically, can someone
>>> identify when they exited the draft phase and became official? (I
>>> am not too worried about this point, though, as GNU tar itself
>>> gives credence to certain specs by saying "we're not compatible
>>> with them yet".)
>
>> I did write it many times and it is easy to prove: the oldest final
>> version is from 1988. So this is before GNU started to make GNU tar
>> from PD tar and before GNU tar introduced non POSIX things.
>
>Except that gnu tar existed before then. I believe that I was using it
>in about 1985 or 1986 and that it was already old then. (the current
>gnu source has a changefile that begins in 1996-09-04, which is
>interesting - 1996-09-04 Francois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> *
>ChangeLog, Makefile.am, pretest.in, version.sh: New files. *
>checktar.sh, genfile.c: New files, moved from src/. A regression test
>is an old dream for GNU tar. Reported by Tom Tromey and Robert
>Bernstein).

Nice Try!

Do you really expect anybody to believe your fairy tales?

It is a well known fact that GNU tar started in 1989 by modifying the source
from a program called "SUG-tar / PD-tar".

This program first has been published as "SUG-tar" December 7th 1987 at SUG
conference in SanJose and (to a limited audience) as "PD-tar" in Februar 1987.

If you tell us that you did use this program before, you like to tell us that
you are "John Gilmore"......

You just verified yourself as being completely nonserious. 

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