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Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
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Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting


  • Subject: Re: Any advantages of Unix formatting
  • From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:44:58 +0100

On Wednesday, September 5, 2001, at 04:00 pm, Robert S Goldsmith wrote:

By case preserving maybe it means that if you unarchived a tar file it

will allow it but if you tried to create your own it would not. Try it by
creating two files in linux and taring them, copy the tar across and untar ... It would be interesting to see what tar does about this anyway. After all, if you did get a tar file like this and you can't create both files, is the first overwritten? Is the second not untared? Does the entire untar fail? Are both created? Is one renamed?

tar doesn't know so it just goes ahead and untars the second (over the first).

-- Finlay


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