[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS and (application) directories in tars

  • From: Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:09:33 +0100

On 29 Jul 2013  Frank de Bruijn <davidpilling-sub@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <8TS4b5B7cS9RFwwJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The test I would do, is do your full save from NetSurf to disc,
>> eyeball it to check that is right, then copy from disc to Tar file.
>> Then as above Forget and reopen.

> That's more or less how I've been using them, yes.

>> The other thing you could do is save to a Zip archive.

> I've decided to go back to using zips only. My reason for switching to
> tars was you can't change file names inside zips,

[snip]

The work-round for that is to copy the file with a new name and then 
delete the original; that works.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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