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Date:      20 Jan 2003 17:26:47 +0000
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/untar pkg-descr
Message-ID:  <1043083606.2850.1391.camel@zaphod.softweyr.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030120102435.GA93082@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200301200854.h0K8slaE075823@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030120102435.GA93082@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:24, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:54:47AM -0800, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > edwin       2003/01/20 00:54:47 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     archivers/untar      pkg-descr 
> >   Log:
> >   Make pkg-descr a little bit more descriptive.
> 
> +Tool to list and extract files from a "*.tgz" or "*.gz" archive
> 
> Thanks, but I still don't see why this is useful.  We have several at
> least two tools in the base system to extract tar archives (tar and
> pax).  What extra functionality or justification does this port have?

bash-2.05b$ size untar /usr/bin/tar
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  54872    4356   35904   95132   1739c untar
 286039    6816   28304  321159   4e687 /usr/bin/tar

 * AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT INFO:
 *      Written by Steve Kirkendall, kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu
 *      Placed in public domain, 6 October 1995
 *
 *      Portions derived from inflate.c -- Not copyrighted 1992 by Mark
Adler
 *      version c10p1, 10 January 1993

It's small and it's unemcumbered, those are both good qualifications for
a flash-based appliance.  Fair enough?

--

         Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

Wes Peters                                               wes@softweyr.com



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