> >> Of course, if you only know GNUtar Star's standard option handling > >> _may_ look strange. But then why did FreBSD switch to GNUtar instead > >> of keeping a real tar? > > >Because there didn't exist a real tar at the time that FreeBSD was > >created. > > Well this is from BSD-4.3:
[ SNIP ] > ... And it has no Copyright AT&T inside. > That may be, but at the time FreeBSD was created (so many years ago), there was no 'real' tar to choose from. BSD-4.3 tar was not available publically. I'm not sure it's available even now publically. (Is it part of 4.4-Lite/Lite2?) We tried a number of different versions of tar to distribute initially (including the one from Minix, who Andrew Tanenbaum graciously gave us permission to use), but we decided that GNU-tar was the best of the available versions. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
