From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 29 12:11:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7103C37B41B for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17249; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:11:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fATKB9909446; Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:11:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15366.38492.884486.112360@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 13:11:08 -0700 To: Joerg Schilling Cc: brandt@fokus.gmd.de, jes@fokus.gmd.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tofergus@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: tar and nodump flag (fwd) In-Reply-To: <200111292007.fATK73225638@burner.fokus.gmd.de> References: <200111292007.fATK73225638@burner.fokus.gmd.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message