>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 18 22:04:58 2002
>On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> - Star has a lot of features I use every day that are missing in
>> GNU tar.
>This is the main problem. you wrote star primarily for yourself for
>feature you yourself needed, not for other users...
As I already stated: people who try out star usually never use anything else
after that.
>I think a lot of people are turne off of star because the command switches
>are different. star isn't a "drop-in" replacement.
It is the other way round: GNU tar is not a drop in replacement for Star,
star is much older thanGNU tar and if there is an incompatibility on the
comandline then it is most likely an option that has been impemented by star
before 1989.
J�rg
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