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Date:      Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:27:48 -0400
From:      Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        Andrey Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib file.c
Message-ID:  <4075DFF4.7020100@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040408020559.O4847@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <200404080606.i3866g3q063716@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040408062121.GA49250@nagual.pp.ru> <4074F596.2020401@kientzle.com> <20040408020559.O4847@odysseus.silby.com>

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Mike Silbersack wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have reasons for diverging from GNU tar here, though
>>I could be convinced otherwise:
> 
> 
> Will tar -zxvf not work with bsdtar?  I've been using that command line
> for years, and I don't think I'll be able to learn to reorder it.
> 
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack

But the beauty of bsdtar is that you don't need to specify the -z option
any longer.  That's the way tar/pax/cpio should all work.

Tim, the libarchive/bsdtar is very cool stuff.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman@mindspring.com



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