tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!)

[Ron Natalie]

If anybody is interested, I've got kicking around a public domain version of
TAR that takes the CPIO user interface, that is, the list of file names is
provided on the standard input.  While I was writing this, I noticed that
while every version of the TAR manual page that I've come accross describes
the format calls for zero-filling the fields, every implementation I've
seen actually space fills them (as if they had done it with Printf("%12d")).

Fortunately, every one is liberal in reading the archives (scanf doesn't care).

-Ron