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Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system
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Craig Boston wrote:
> 
> gtar used to have problems with truncating device nodes to 16 bits; not that 
> it's as much of an issue in the modern era with devfs.

If you really need such truncation, you can get it with --format=ustar 
in bsdtar.  ;-)

Tim