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From: Robert Swindells <rjs@genrad.co.uk>
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In-reply-to: <20010718010626.A14255@misty.eyesbeyond.com> (message from Greg
	Lewis on Wed, 18 Jul 2001 01:06:27 +0930)
Subject: Re: 1.3.1 Developer Only patchset.
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Greg Lewis wrote:
>You need a recent version of GNU tar to unpack the 1.3.1 sources you
>download from Sun.  In my experience the stock FreeBSD tar won't work
>(yes, I know its a version of GNU tar, but its an older one).  The
>gtar port should do the trick.  I'll update the build instructions to
>reflect this.

>Someone might want to try pax and see if that works too :).

It works.

Robert Swindells

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