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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
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Subject: Re: pkg_add broken by POLA breakage in tar 
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<<On Thu, 01 Aug 2002 12:01:08 -0700, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> said:

> If it were upto me I'd choose what POSIX says.

POSIX says to use pax(1).  There is no `tar' in POSIX.  (There is,
unfortunately, a cpio(1) in POSIX.)

-GAWollman


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