Subject: Re: FYI: upgrading GNU tar
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/11/2002 13:24:09
--/9ZOS6odDaRI+0hI
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:11:07PM -0400, Jed Davis wrote:
> Also, I think I'm not alone in saying that there needs to be *some*
> kind of tar on the system, regardless of its provenance. =20

pax(1) reads USTAR archives. What's the problem?

> --Jed; and, of course, it needs to support the -C option.

I believe that's how pax(1) behaves if you specify -r -w (or just
-r, if you're actually coming from an archive; I presume you like -C
to save a | ( cd todir && on copies).

--=20
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

--/9ZOS6odDaRI+0hI
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (NetBSD)

iD8DBQE9pwk59ehacAz5CRoRAvTHAJ0ZPTNqRqTCIjmfjWy58p5vwhhODgCfYW2C
4zzjXAiVCD02cTZNXeGIKxM=
=wnsj
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--/9ZOS6odDaRI+0hI--