On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 02:38:33PM -0700, John Refling wrote:

 > So, is there a reason for not updating to a more
 > recent version??  Version 1.11.2 has some problems,
 > one of which is described in PR/10009.
 > 
 > Do -current users have some knowledge/requirements about
 > why/why_not to keep old version?

We're trying to get rid of gnu tar -- effort is best spent finishing up
pax(1).

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