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David Dawes wrote:
> 
> >The real problem, anyway, is that pax should be used instead of "tar"
> >when building packages or preparing the distribution, to be more
> >standard comformant. I think the ports tree uses pax anyway.
> 
> I've seen problems with pax -- both the original version which I
> tried some years ago, and the version that comes with Digital Unix
> (and to which tar and cpio are linked).  I've been avoiding it ever
> since, and haven't tried the version included with FreeBSD.
> 
> David

FWIW, there is a commercial tar utility in http://www.cactus.com called
"Lone-Tar". Too western for me :-).