[Duplicity-talk] Re: Help me replace tar!

[Joerg Schilling]

>From address@hidden  Sat Oct 18 01:57:05 2003

>Well, I'm referring to pages such as:

>http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_node/tar_123.html#SEC118

>You are right that GNU tar doesn't always seem to follow that
>precisely (in fact an issue arose about this a few days ago with large
>uids), but the manual seems approximately accurate and much better
>than nothing.

OK, I started to document the rest of the star format. It is more than
twice the amount it was yeaterday but it is still far from being complete...

        http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling/private/man/star.4.html

BTW: I am not sure if ot makes sense to write a tar implementation in
an interpreter language as you seem to do. The speed of such a beast nowerdays
mainly depend on the efficience of handling archive headers. Star is higly
optimized for doing so even from the perspective of a C program.

Jörg

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