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On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 12:45:38PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> /usr/ports/archivers/star is a tar that claims to do streaming.

Besides from being the only tar that can archive files of 8GB+ ...
star is indeed the fastest unbuffered streaming tar, however, gnutar
with some kind of buffering program is not that much slower...

Zlo