Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:8794 comp.unix.wizards:10440 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!) Message-ID:Date: 12 Aug 88 18:26:32 GMT References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <1414@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <2858@ttrdc.UUCP> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 10 If anybody is interested, I've got kicking around a public domain version of TAR that takes the CPIO user interface, that is, the list of file names is provided on the standard input. While I was writing this, I noticed that while every version of the TAR manual page that I've come accross describes the format calls for zero-filling the fields, every implementation I've seen actually space fills them (as if they had done it with Printf("%12d")). Fortunately, every one is liberal in reading the archives (scanf doesn't care). -Ron