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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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AIX, systems using Posix tar utility.
Description
On some systems gnu tar utility is not present however posix tar does exist. It would be nice if we could specify as a target "ptar" as a file format to allow users of the assembly plugin to generate this particular kind of tar file. As a note, using posix tar to extract a gnu tar file results in truncated files and other anomalies.
The difference in tar format is described here in detail http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/tar/tar_114.html
As a work around for users that need an archive format, but can not use zip or gnu tar, they can try building their files into a jar file. The jar utility can then be used to extract the contents.
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