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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
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Subject: Re: GNU is not tar
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Tom Samplonius wrote:
> 
>   BSD tar was discarded with 4.4, and "replaced" with pax.  BSDI 2.1
> hardlinks tar to pax.
> 
Thanks for the hint.
The GNU tar bug must be something very stupid, one notation is accepted
and the other isn't (something like this):

tar -cbf filename.tar 10 *				Doesn't work !
tar --create --file filename.tar --blocksize 10 *	works! 

regards,

	--Pedro.

> Tom