Re: tar and md5 question

From: dima (_pppp@mail.ru)
Date: 09/25/02 

Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 14:37:53 +0400
From: dima <_pppp@mail.ru>
To: "Ramsey G. Brenner" <rgbrenner@myrealbox.com>

>>>I'm playing with my tar and md5 command, I noticed that the md5sum of my
>>>two (2) tar ball with the same content are not equal. Any ideas why it
>>>is not equal?
>>file times?
> It cant be file times, since the md5 utility does not look at that
> information. The md5 utility only looks at the data in the file when it is
> trying to determine the md5 sum.
i meant tar saves file names in the archive

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