Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 21:47:05 -0400 From: Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org> To: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tar broken for large files? Message-ID: <27F87895-6A01-11D6-84C0-00039312C852@automagic.org> In-Reply-To: <200205181333.15145.james.pole@paradise.net.nz>
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On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 09:33 , James Pole wrote: > 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 > FreeBSD and the current gtar? No idea. It works fine for trivial applications; I have never noticed a difference between any of them. I don't normally have occasion to engage in complicated tar-fu, however. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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