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Date:      Fri, 17 May 2002 20:43:01 -0400
From:      Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
To:        Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc:        Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>, Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tar broken for large files?
Message-ID:  <3539C7B0-69F8-11D6-84C0-00039312C852@automagic.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020517232616.GC60644@no-support.loc>

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On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 07:26 , Bjoern Fischer wrote:

> On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:56:21AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>> also, how about using pax  ?
>>
>> FYI, for writting, use pax -w -x ustar -f /dev/sa0
>> and for reading, use pax -r -pp -f /dev/sa0
>
> IMHO pax(1) is one of the most underestimated archivers in the
> UNIX environment.
>
> What about propagating pax(1) and wrap the tar(1) command line
> interface into pax for compatibility.

OpenBSD's tar is pax, fwtw. Has been for a long time.

jabley@maggie[131]$ ls -ali $(which tar) $(which pax)
7430 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  bin  303104 Apr 29  2001 /bin/pax
7430 -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  bin  303104 Apr 29  2001 /bin/tar
jabley@maggie[132]$ uname -a
OpenBSD maggie 2.9 GENERIC#34 sparc
jabley@maggie[133]$


Joe


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