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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 18:02:58 -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:

> 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.

  BSD tar was discarded with 4.4, and "replaced" with pax.  BSDI 2.1
hardlinks tar to pax.

Tom