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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:19:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: GNU is not tar
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On Mon, 12 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> Hi,
> GNU tar gave me some problems setting the blocksize, so I remembered
> someone recommended an alternative tar program on the ports list. I
> think our gnu tar is outdated (current version should be 1.12), but
> looking at:
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star/README.otherbugs
> my conclusion is that GNU tar is so buggy we should replace it in the
> base distribution and move it to the ports tree.
> 
> Pedro.

  The FreeBSD tar is not a "pure" GNU version.  Many local changes were
made, include bug fixes.

  You also don't mention what version of FreeBSD you are using.

Tom