Wanted: Example tar files

Max Laier max at love2party.net
Mon May 17 20:33:11 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 18 May 2004 03:57, Tim Kientzle wrote:
<...>
> An ideal test archive would not be too big (< 16k) and
> have as many as possible of the following:
>    * regular file
>    * directory
>    * hardlink
>    * symlink
>    * fifo, socket, device node, etc.
>    * regular file with very long pathname (>256 characters)
>    * symlink to a file with a very long pathname
>    * file with 8-bit character in the filename
>    * file with 8-bit character in the user or group name
>    * file with ACL, file flags, or other extended permissions

How about posting such a tar somewhere so people can retar it with whatever 
they have?

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