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I recently purchased historical PRO data for horse racing.
I downloaded the tar file. When I untarred the archive I was somewhat surprised to see the file paths specified as absolute paths with windows drive included, e.g.
C:/Sites/xdw/api/7cd101aa-2964-478a-989b-5004e7f105c6/PRO-1.132747316.bz2
As a Unix user (or Mac user), using a windows drive is really not helpful, especially as tar is a Unix utility.
You really shouldn't use absolute paths in tar files as they get untarred to the local relative path.
Betfair, your developers really should be embarrassed at this. Using an absolute path including C: drive really demonstrates a lack of modern software and api understanding, not to mention that many people use Unix and Macs.
I downloaded the tar file. When I untarred the archive I was somewhat surprised to see the file paths specified as absolute paths with windows drive included, e.g.
C:/Sites/xdw/api/7cd101aa-2964-478a-989b-5004e7f105c6/PRO-1.132747316.bz2
As a Unix user (or Mac user), using a windows drive is really not helpful, especially as tar is a Unix utility.
You really shouldn't use absolute paths in tar files as they get untarred to the local relative path.
Betfair, your developers really should be embarrassed at this. Using an absolute path including C: drive really demonstrates a lack of modern software and api understanding, not to mention that many people use Unix and Macs.