From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 16 14:16:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E010E156F4 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:16:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-2-55.ucdavis.edu [169.237.16.183]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA62935; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:16:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA67765; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:16:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:16:01 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alec Wolman Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnu tar upgrade? Message-ID: <19990816141600.A67747@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199908162036.NAA69812@miles.cs.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199908162036.NAA69812@miles.cs.washington.edu>; from Alec Wolman on Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 01:36:08PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I looked at the implementation of fast-read, and it doesn't look > too hard to adapt to the new version of tar. I could create > patches if there is interest.... There is. Upgrading tar is something I've been wanting to do for over a year. Anything to speed me along would be helpful. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message