From owner-freebsd-stable Fri May 17 18:33:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from deborah.paradise.net.nz (deborah.paradise.net.nz [203.96.152.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1420637B401 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 18:33:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturn (203-79-102-251.tnt14.paradise.net.nz [203.79.102.251]) by deborah.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id E880DD4BE9; Sat, 18 May 2002 13:33:14 +1200 (NZST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: James Pole Organization: None To: Joe Abley Subject: Re: Tar broken for large files? Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:33:15 +1200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <3539C7B0-69F8-11D6-84C0-00039312C852@automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <3539C7B0-69F8-11D6-84C0-00039312C852@automagic.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200205181333.15145.james.pole@paradise.net.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 18 May 2002 12:43, Joe Abley wrote: > 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 ? > > > > 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. > How compatiable is pax in both OpenBSD and FreeBSD to the present tar in=20 FreeBSD and the current gtar? --=20 James Pole - www.jamespole.cjb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message