Jake Hamby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You're right. At least my comment led to an interesting discussion, as I
> didn't know about star and its functionality. It might also be worthwhile to
> look at FreeBSD's tar, which is fast, automatically recognizes .gz and .bz2
> archives (and decodes them internally) and was written to be as compatible as
> possible.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/tar/
>
> From the man page:
>
> STANDARDS
> There is no current POSIX standard for the tar command; it appeared
> in p1003.1-96 but was dropped from p1003.1-2001. The options used by this
> implementation were developed by surveying a number of existing tar
> implementations as well as the old POSIX specification for tar and the
> current POSIX specification for pax.
>
> The ustar and pax interchange file formats are defined by p1003.1-2001
> for the pax command.
I see not reason why FreeBSD people did start another tar implementation
recently. All issues, the FreeBSD people did have with GNU tar have been
addressed with star since a long time. The only reason for creating this
new program is a religuous background.
The new BSD tar implementation does not implement anything that has not
been present in star for years.
Jörg
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