On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> > ...or we use something other than pax to do the extract.  It's a tar
> > archive, right?  Why not use tar?

Because our tar is really gtar, which is gpl'd. All the utilities on the
install media are munged into one binary. If we included a GPL'd program
in there, the whle thing comes under the GPL virus. :-(

> > If our stock tar is too bloated for the install disks (it *is* a GNU
> > program; there's probably a whole Lisp engine in there or something), I
> 
> I believe our stock tar is now a front-end for pax.

Not yet. :-( There was talk about it, but I don't think it has been
completed. I think the long command line options (--foo-bar) were the
stumbling block.

Take care,

Bill