Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 23:30:44 -0500 From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: chris@calldei.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU tar Message-ID: <19990408233044.C31135@holly.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904082003210.12356-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>; from unknown@riverstyx.net on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 08:03:42PM -0700 References: <19990408220109.B31135@holly.dyndns.org> <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904082003210.12356-100000@hades.riverstyx.net>
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On Thu, Apr 8, 1999, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > 'coz gnu tar works better, and bsd tar sucks? as does every other > proprietary tar, as far as i know. I'm going to assume the tar distributed with BSD/OS is the BSD tar (it's really pax), and it's already shipped with FreeBSD, it's just that /bin/tar is not linked to /bin/pax by default. I have a setup that accomplishes the same thing as linking /bin/tar to /bin/pax and that tar works fine. > > --- > tani hosokawa > river styx internet > > > On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > > > > I've been thinking about it, and I have to ask why GNU tar was > > included with the FreeBSD system as the default tar(1) utility. > > Wouldn't including the tar distributed with BSD be a better > > choice, since it's a bit more portable, and perhaps have the GNU > > tar availible as gtar, or as a port, starting in -CURRENT? > > > > Thanks, > > Chris > > > > -- > > ============================================= > > * "This process can check if this value is * > > * zero, and if it is, it does something * > > * child-like." -Forbes Burkowski, CS 454 * > > ============================================= > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > -- ============================================= * "This process can check if this value is * * zero, and if it is, it does something * * child-like." -Forbes Burkowski, CS 454 * ============================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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