Integrating star into NetBSD, as well as all UN*X systems,
sure has my vote.

Star is well positioned to support and
facilitate the evolving file model. At
a presentation I did a few months ago
I made a case for everybody getting behind
star as part of convergence.

     http://www.nasconf.com/pres04/waidhofer.pdf

FreeBSD has a nice library for manipulating
archives. That work is clearly taking cues
from star.

Joerg: really excellent work. Congrats
and thank you.

Regards,
	-gww

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-advocacy-owner@NetBSD.org
> [mailto:netbsd-advocacy-owner@NetBSD.org]On Behalf Of Joerg Schilling
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:18 AM
> To: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Star & NetBSD
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Last night, I did convert star from a GPL tool into a CDDL
> tool. This now makes star compliant with the BSD philosophy.
>
> Is there a chance to have star integrated into NetBSD?
>
> Compared to star-1.4, star-1.5 gives a lot of new features, e.g.:
>
> -	a true incremental backup/restore mode that uses the
> 	same basic philosophy as ufsdump/ufsrestore does
> 	but with a portable archive format.
>
> -	Support for more than the star command line syntax.
> 	Star now can be combined as "star_fat" and then uses
> 	a command line interface that depends on av[0]:
>
> 	star	the generic star command line interface
>
> 	tar	Compatible to Sun tar which is a true enhancement
> 		to the bsd tar program
>
> 	gtar	Compatible to GNU tar
>
> 	cpio
> 	scpio	Compatible to cpio
>
> 	pax	compatible to pax
>
> The nice side effect is that you may have a program that behaves 98% like
> gnu tar but is not based on the GPL.
>
> If you have questions, please ask...
>
>
> Jörg
>
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