Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Jan 10, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| 
| > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Gullik Bjønnes) writes:
| >
| > | I'd like to have some more information about the tar binary on OSX.
| >
| > More specifically what tar formats it actually supports.
| 
| tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
| 
| That's the version installed via fink <http://fink.sourceforge.net/>,
| I believe as a normal part of the fink installation (which is the
| easiest thing to use on Mac to get automake 1.9 and gettext). They
| simply point to <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/> for information.

That version is the same as mine. ustar should work with that unless
the fink people has turned those formats off.

| Apple's version is: tar (GNU tar) 1.14


this might not have it

-- 
        Lgb

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