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Date:      Tue, 13 May 1997 00:15:28 -0700
From:      "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
To:        David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GNU is not tar
Message-ID:  <33781510.52B9@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.94.970512180204.6097B-100000@misery.sdf.com> <3377F32D.10DB@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <19970513140357.63713@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>

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David Dawes wrote:
> 
> So, it is behaving as documented, and the FreeBSD man page isn't accurate:
> 
You are right. I never read the complete tar manpage, but only the
example (which was wrong). The "-" is optional as Chuck Robey noted.

The real problem, anyway, is that pax should be used instead of "tar"
when building packages or preparing the distribution, to be more
standard comformant. I think the ports tree uses pax anyway.

Pedro. 


> 
> David



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