From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 21:33: 4 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 9937B14C0E for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:32:57 -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 1F9C03707B; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 00:30:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA31970; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 23:30:45 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 23:30:44 -0500 From: Chris Costello To: unknown@riverstyx.net Cc: chris@calldei.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNU tar Message-ID: <19990408233044.C31135@holly.dyndns.org> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <19990408220109.B31135@holly.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: ; from unknown@riverstyx.net on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 08:03:42PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 8, 1999, unknown@riverstyx.net wrote: > 'coz gnu tar works better, and bsd tar sucks? as does every other > proprietary tar, as far as i know. I'm going to assume the tar distributed with BSD/OS is the BSD tar (it's really pax), and it's already shipped with FreeBSD, it's just that /bin/tar is not linked to /bin/pax by default. I have a setup that accomplishes the same thing as linking /bin/tar to /bin/pax and that tar works fine. > > --- > 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 > > > -- ============================================= * "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