Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 20:48:27 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NEW TAR Message-ID: <20040717184827.GA54053@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040717183658.GS1626@green.homeunix.org> References: <40F963D8.6010201@freebsd.org> <20040717183658.GS1626@green.homeunix.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 ;-) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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