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Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com> wrote:

> On 2005-02-10 at 20:08:10 Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > Is there a chance to have star integrated into FreeBSD?
>
> Tim Kientzle already produced a BSD-licensed version of tar, having
> many features:  http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/
> (He even mentions you on this page :)  So unless your program offers
> essential features that his doesn't, I would guess it won't have much
> chance.

I already send a notice that explains what star offers in addition,
e.g. incremental backups/restores and syncong filesystems...

Jörg

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