Colin Walters wrote: > > My impression was that several people have looked at modifying GNU tar > to support xattrs, and ended up running away screaming... That doesn't mean it's the wrong thing to do! Deprecating tar doesn't sound like a winning idea to me. Surely someone will make their sanity saving throw. -- Jamie Zawinski jwz@xxxxxxx http://www.jwz.org/ jwz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dnalounge.com/