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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:48:27 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 02:36:58PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:37:28AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> > By default, /usr/bin/tar is now a symlink pointing
> > to /usr/bin/bsdtar.
> > 
> > How will this affect you?
> > 
> > Most people should not notice the change.  bsdtar
> > accepts the most popular gtar command-line options, reads
> > gtar files, and generally does what most people
> > expect from a modern tar implementation.
> > 
> > However, bsdtar is not a clone of gtar.  If you rely
> > on specific gtar features, then you should be using gtar.
> > 
> > What are the differences?
> > 
>   * Don't forget to mention it can be faster than GNU tar, too :)

And certified GPLfree ;-)


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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org