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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:28:43 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current Mailing List <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/gnu/usr.bin/cpio copyin.c
Message-ID:  <9603191928.AA01087@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603191849.LAA04511@rocky.sri.MT.net>
References:  <199603182308.PAA10754@freefall.freebsd.org> <9603191627.AA32692@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199603191849.LAA04511@rocky.sri.MT.net>

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<<On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:49:10 -0700, Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> said:

> And tar as well.  I believe BSDi uses pax for both cpio and tar in their
> releases.

I think there are good reasons for keeping GNU tar as the standard
tar(1) (if only because it /is/ the standard tar(1)).

-GAWollman

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