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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2005 16:37:49 +0100
From:      Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To:        schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, dimitry@andric.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@freesd.org
Subject:   Re: Star & FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <420CD14D.nail8VD91UCLP@burner>
In-Reply-To: <1563482491.20050211163356@andric.com>
References:  <420BB11A.nail73W1IA0G1@burner> <1563482491.20050211163356@andric.com>

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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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