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I wonder if Jörg Schilling's (RIP) star* handles this better. I recall he was pretty scathing about GNU tar back when I used Solaris. * http://cdrtools.sourcef

• asveikau 4y ago
  > Jörg Schilling's (RIP) As someone who burned a lot of CDs on Linux on the 90s, you bet i recognize that name, and didn't hear this news. https://lwn.net/Articles/872489/ https://lwn.net/Articles/872489/
  • macintux 4y ago
    There were some interesting personal anecdotes shared here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28827388 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28827388
    • mauvehaus 4y ago
      I didn't mention it there, but I was actually responsible for some pax format related work many years back and reached out to him with a question pertaining to his star implementation. He had strong feelings about his star being the star and an unrelated star archiving tool needing to be renamed. Something I was in no position to do or advocate for. I no longer remember if we actually discussed the technical matter or not at any point. I was wondering if mention of him would pop up in the comments since he wrote a tar (and possibly pax, I no longer remember) implementation.