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Date:      Sat, 18 May 2002 13:33:15 +1200
From:      James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz>
To:        Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Tar broken for large files?
Message-ID:  <200205181333.15145.james.pole@paradise.net.nz>
In-Reply-To: <3539C7B0-69F8-11D6-84C0-00039312C852@automagic.org>
References:  <3539C7B0-69F8-11D6-84C0-00039312C852@automagic.org>

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On Sat, 18 May 2002 12:43, Joe Abley wrote:
> On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 07:26 , Bjoern Fischer wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 05:56:21AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> >> also, how about using pax  ?
> >
> > What about propagating pax(1) and wrap the tar(1) command line
> > interface into pax for compatibility.
>
> OpenBSD's tar is pax, fwtw. Has been for a long time.
>

How compatiable is pax in both OpenBSD and FreeBSD to the present tar in=20
FreeBSD and the current gtar?

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James Pole  - www.jamespole.cjb.net

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