8 Apr
2008
8 Apr
'08
8:17 a.m.
I do. But
then, I wrote both the tar implementation I use and its
manpage, so perhaps that's cheating. :) (Actually, the manpage is
somewhat out of date; I doubt I've updated it since the last round
of changes to the code....)
I think you started out trying to prove a point, but
you proved
another. Is that what they call an "own goal"?
Perhaps, if I were trying to take a stance on some issue, which I
didn't think I was - I thought I was offering a data point to indicate
that the situation of users understanding tar was not *quite* as bleak
as it was painted. (I suppose this could be taken as taking a stance
on the presence of users who grok the tars they use, but in that case I
see no grounds for calling it an own goal....)
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