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Date:      Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:34:07 +0000
From:      Andrew Sinclair <syncman@optusnet.com.au>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   tar fix soon (was: Re: 5.3-RC2 tar breaks operation with "(null)")
Message-ID:  <41ACF55F.3010102@optusnet.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20041117155007.GA71692@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <419A5AAB.7080409@optusnet.com.au> <20041116213536.GG17125@xor.obsecurity.org> <419B8175.6060506@optusnet.com.au> <20041117155007.GA71692@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 04:51:01PM +0000, Andrew Sinclair wrote:
>  
>
>>So a PPT and a PNG were garbled. No big deal. Since bsdtar is now the 
>>default Tape ARchiver, shouldn't it include the options of its 
>>predecessor? I would assert --ignore-zero on plain files and allow 
>>--ignore-failed-read at least.
>>    
>>
>
>You can (and should) discuss this with the author, but bsdtar isn't
>currently intended to be a 100% replacement for gtar, particularly for
>the more obscure options.  If you need gtar, you can always use it
>instead.
>
>  
>
For those of you who are following this thread, I have contacted the 
author and he will be adding these two options.



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