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Date:      Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:07:49 +0200
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Overwrite bsd tar
Message-ID:  <4E7C7695.7020602@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <4E7C75D3.5080206@bananmonarki.se>
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On 9/23/11 2:04 PM, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 2011-09-23 13:25, Esimorp E skrev:
>>
>> I would be grateful if anyone could help me out on how to overwrite
>> bsd tar with Gnu tar.
> 
> Thats not a good idea. If you want to use gnu tar then gtar is the
> command for you. Or copy tar to tar.bsd and make a symlink tar > gtar.


Even worse, what's going to happen when some BSD specific software tries
to pass BSD specific options to gnutar ?




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