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Subject: Re: Overwrite bsd tar
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2011-09-23 13:25, Esimorp E skrev:
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> 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.