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Subject: Re: Tar broken for large files?
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To: James Pole <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


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