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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:09:14 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        kalts@estpak.ee, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Things to remove from /rescue
Message-ID:  <p05210674bb3c5ceaf247@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20030717135041.GB6651@kevad.internal>
References:  <20030717080805.GA98878@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030717135041.GB6651@kevad.internal>

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At 4:50 PM +0300 7/17/03, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 17, 2003, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>>  - tar, pax (w/{bz,g}zip) can do everything GNU tar can.
>
>As someone said, people are accustomed to tar, it's in
>fingers.  I like to use pax for copying directory hierarchies
>(pax -rw), but for every other task use tar. Will learn pax
>if needed, no problem.

'tar' is programmed into my fingers too, but I must admit
that I like the idea of limiting the amount of GNU-licensed
bits in /rescue.  I guess gzip needs to be there, is there
anything else that's gnu-ish?

[hopefully this is the last bit of paint that I will add to
this potential bikeshed...]

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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