18 May
2005
18 May
'05
7:54 p.m.
You raise a
good point. I'll have to add support to my tar for file
sizes over 8G.
But then it won't be tar. You'll be creating files that can only be
extracted with your
version.
And this is different from using rar, or zip, or whatever, how? You
*always* need a program to read the format in question (or docs enough
to produce such a program). The only difference I can see is the
wideness of spread of the format and/or programs to read it, and if
mouse-tar archives become widely enough spread for that to matter, I
expect mouse-tar to spread along with them, if not before them.
The solution is an archive format that handles nearly
ludicrous
sizes, such as WinRK or RAR.
...or mouse-tar, once I fix it. :-)
Actually, it wouldn't surprise me if gnu tar already supported such an
extension to the tar format.
Besides, I want to add such support to my tar regardless of its utility
for what's being discussed here.
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