Re: Max arguments for NSTask?

FROM : Scott Anguish
DATE : Sun Oct 27 22:35:24 2002

On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 04:33 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:

>>> If it doesn't exist, xargs does look promising.
>>>
>>
>>     that's an option.. but why in the hell use pax anyways... tar works
>> and it doesn't replace symbolic links that the user has created with
>> files that it feels are more appropriate.
>
> Unfortunately, I have no choice but to use pax for what I do. However,
> tar doesn't seem to have this option either...
>
   OK.. tar in this case is infact Pax (barf).. why would you have no
choice but to use pax?  Unless you're pulling apart .pkg files..

   gnutar.. that'll do it.. --files-from filename

   with pax you could just iterate over the files, adding/extracting them
to/from an existing archive...
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