On Jan 10,  5:12am, mrg@eterna.com.au (matthew green) wrote:
-- Subject: re: CVS commit: src/bin/pax

I removed the '-L' option on pax as tar; the reason is that -h does the
same thing now, and -L means something totally different on gtar. By
removing -L [which is the same as -h now], we gain the ability to add
the gnutar's -L behavior in the future. Unfortunately most 3rd party
software assumes tar == gtar, and that kind of forces our hands.

christos


|    Module Name:	src
|    Committed By:	christos
|    Date:		Thu Jan  9 17:26:21 UTC 2003
|    
|    Modified Files:
|    	src/bin/pax: options.c
|    
|    Log Message:
|    PR/19757: Andreas Wrede: make tar's -h behave like pax's -L
| 
| 
| this change also removes pax-as-tar -L which has existed since pax
| was first imported... any particular reason you did this?
| 
| 
| 
| .mrg.
-- End of excerpt from matthew green