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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:11:08 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.gmd.de>
Cc:        brandt@fokus.gmd.de, jes@fokus.gmd.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tofergus@yahoo.co.uk
Subject:   Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd)
Message-ID:  <15366.38492.884486.112360@caddis.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200111292007.fATK73225638@burner.fokus.gmd.de>
References:  <200111292007.fATK73225638@burner.fokus.gmd.de>

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> Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling
> _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead
> of keeping a real tar?

Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was
created.


Nate

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