On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, TD - Sales Int'l Holland B.V. wrote:
> I believe FreeBSD ships with another version of tar which according to
> several docs of several progs I've read is broken. Don't ask me why it ain't
> fixed yet then, I really don't know :-) you should be able to get gnu-tar at
> www.gnu.org or at sites like www.freshmeat.net
>
> Anyways, due to the problems the BSD tar causes it won't allow you to use
> it.
FreeBSD's tar *is* GNU tar:
> which tar
/usr/bin/tar
> tar --version
GNU tar version 1.11.2
At least, this is as of FreeBSD 4.4-RC2.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
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