Wanted: Example tar files

[Daniel Lang]

Hi,

Tim Kientzle wrote on Mon, May 17, 2004 at 09:50:22PM -0700:
[..]
> >How about posting such a tar somewhere so people can retar it with 
> >whatever they have?
> 
> That would require that people be able to untar
> whatever I provide.  There are enough differences
> among tar implementations (especially for things
> like long filenames, 8-bit characters, extended
> permissions, etc) that it's not really possible.
[..]
> I could scrape together a shell script to build
> a directory with a suitable set of files (can't
> quite cover all of the above with that, but can
> cover much of it).  I'll see about that.
[..]

Nearly everybody has access to GNU tar. Just create the
sample-tarfile with gtar such that it can be extracted with
gtar (possibly documenting required extract options to do it
correctly). However, a shell skript might be an even
better idea (although it might not work on a pre 1980 unix).

Best regards,
 Daniel
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