>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 29 21:11:16 2001 >> 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. Well this is from BSD-4.3: /* * Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. The Berkeley software License Agreement * specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. */ #ifndef lint char copyright[] = "@(#) Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California.\n\ All rights reserved.\n"; #endif not lint #ifndef lint static char sccsid[] = "@(#)tar.c 5.7 (Berkeley) 4/26/86"; #endif not lint This _is_ a real tar. ... And it has no Copyright AT&T inside. If you like to compare star against the standard, look at: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcu/tar.html Jörg EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
