Hi,

Am Samstag, 22. September 2007 schrieb Florian Philipp:
> Hi!
> I'd like to hear some comments on app-arch/star.

it's a great tool imo.

> I've looked at its (IMHO really great) man page and didn't see anything
> obviously concerning. Most frequently used tar options (-c -x -p -z -j)
> seem to be in place.
> What I'd like to know: Is it fully backward compatible to tar?

What version of "tar"? It's not 100% compatible to GNU tar but posix compliant 
afaik.

> Could I 
> safely unmerge tar and make a symlink from tar to star?

Well I did the symlink, but have a copy of gnu tar in some other dir. Until 
now, I did not need the fallback.

> Thanks in advance!
> Florian Philipp

Hth,
Michael

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