GNU tar damage for the 5000th time, was Re: [Zope] z2 startup exception

[Terry Hancock]

On Monday 22 September 2003 09:07 pm, Dave Hall wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:56:51PM -0500, Terry Hancock wrote:
> > On Monday 22 September 2003 03:31 pm, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> > > This is usually indicitive of Zope being unpacked with something other
> > > than GNU tar.
> > 
> > Well, since Gnu Tar is available to everyone, <snip>
> 
> So are most Windows viruses, that doesn't mean I should install it.
> 
> There are many operating systems that do not ship with GNU tar including
> OpenBSD.  If old style tar works, then there is no need to upgrade.

I agree completely.  Unfortunately, your "if clause" is false: old style
tar does not work. ;-)

Cheers,
Terry

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