reminds me of the tar changes with the advent of gnutar... boy have I had a lot of fun transporting files to find out when extracting it creates the directories as files.....


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
Tar and cpio at least have a standard, well understood format. Dump was always only defined by the source.

Warner



On Feb 14, 2010, at 7:27 PM, Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:

It used to be the case that dump was completely interchangeable
between the different BSDs, but software drift has rendered that not
the case anymore.

Which is why we (BitKeeper guys) don't even trust cpio/tar/etc.  Wrote our
own, works everywhere including windows.
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com


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