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On Thu, 16 May 2002, Tod McQuillin wrote:

> As it turns out, FreeBSD's tar is in fact GNU tar, albeit an older
> version.
>
> % tar --version
> GNU tar version 1.11.2

Its a *very* hacked-at version of GNU tar 1.11.2.

It should be hacked at some more to teach it about >2g file sizes.

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