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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: GNU is not tar
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Chuck:
Read the URL, it has a list of bugs. GNU tar is not POSIX. I'm not sure
of putting in "star" either, I'm testing it now. For sure we should at
least upgrade GNU tar.
What ever happened to BSD tar? It was pre-POSIX but it was an option
also.

	--Pedro.


Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> 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 think our gnu tar is outdated (current version should be 1.12), but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.
> 
> So far, Pedro, I've heard about one problem, and that not a major one.
> Could you justify calling GNU tar "so buggy" ?  And, do you have enough
> experience with star so you could nonestly say it doesn't have an even
> worse set?  Saying that star has one item it does better is a little
> thin.  Is there more?
> 
> >
> > Pedro.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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