From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 20: 3:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from leap.innerx.net (leap.innerx.net [38.179.176.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF8A15AC8 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:03:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.dyndns.org) Received: from holly.dyndns.org (ip189.houston13.tx.pub-ip.psi.net [38.27.213.189]) by leap.innerx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DEE23707B for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 23:01:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA31677 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:01:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 22:01:09 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: GNU tar Message-ID: <19990408220109.B31135@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been thinking about it, and I have to ask why GNU tar was included with the FreeBSD system as the default tar(1) utility. Wouldn't including the tar distributed with BSD be a better choice, since it's a bit more portable, and perhaps have the GNU tar availible as gtar, or as a port, starting in -CURRENT? Thanks, Chris -- ============================================= * "This process can check if this value is * * zero, and if it is, it does something * * child-like." -Forbes Burkowski, CS 454 * ============================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message