Re: Editing tar file under osx

On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:16:21 -0800 (PST)
Subbu <subbus.joshi@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone!
>
> I have this strange problem editing tar file
> with vim. vim can edit and update tar under
> Linux. But it might have some problem with osx.
> I could reproduce this problem on simple tar
> file(like - tar has one text file). Does anyone
> has problem using vim with tar file with osx
> (os x yosemite) ? Any help really appreciated.
> Bellow is the error I am getting.
>
> ***error*** (tar#Write) sorry, unable to
> update /Users/user/mytar.tar with hello
>
> Output from :message is :
>
> "tarfile::hello" [Not edited] --No lines in
> buffer--
>
> Here is a debug log for this problem :
>
> "hello"
> "hello" [New] 1L, 6C written
> Calling shell to execute: "(tar --delete -f
> '/Users/user/mytar.tar' 'hello')
> >/var/folders/kr/4d2rsqs95bs1lv81d8jkkfwh0000gn/T/vbhpNWR/13
> >2>&1" ***error*** (tar#Write) sorry, unable to
> >2>update /Users/user/mytar.tar with hello
> >2>chdir(..)
> /private/var/folders/kr/4d2rsqs95bs1lv81d8jkkfwh0000gn/T/vbhpNWR/12
> Calling shell to execute: "(/bin/rm -rf --
> '_ZIPVIM_')
> >/var/folders/kr/4d2rsqs95bs1lv81d8jkkfwh0000gn/T/vbhpNWR/14
> >2>&1"
>
> Thank you!
>
> Best Regards,
> Subbu
>

In general open source programs often run best on
Linux, the same or sometimes a little worse on
Windows and often have problems or late release
dates or both for OS X. When you choose an OS
this is what you accept.

I only tar and untar files using the tools with
those names. I never used vim or gvim for
manipulating tar files, nor felt the need to do
so.

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