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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: BUG in KFM
From:       Alex Zepeda <jazepeda () pacbell ! net>
Date:       1999-10-13 15:35:02
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On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:

> IIRC someone on KDE-II mentioned that this is critical, as there seem to
> be somewhat different tar formats. So I guess it's better to stick with an
> external tar process..
> 
> But I'm clueless about the tar internals, so please don't flame me for the
> wrong assumption :-)

Yeah, and then there's the nonstandard output from the various tar
programs, or the OSes without tar (OpenBSD, does pax produce identical
output?).

Either way you slice it, there's a whole lot of crap floating around, and
tar handling code in general is badly in need of a rewrite.

- alex

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