From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 21: 3:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (hades.riverstyx.net [216.94.42.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C46714EB5 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA15605; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:03:42 -0700 Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:03:42 -0700 (PDT) From: To: chris@calldei.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU tar In-Reply-To: <19990408220109.B31135@holly.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 'coz gnu tar works better, and bsd tar sucks? as does every other proprietary tar, as far as i know. --- tani hosokawa river styx internet On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Chris Costello wrote: > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message