tar or gtar

2005-07-12 Thread Sherman, Michael \(GE Energy\)
Hi all. I am running 5.3. I noticed that by default the BSD tar is used. Are there any advantages of gtar over tar? If so which ones? Also which compression switch is more efficient -z or -Z ? Thanks in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: tar or gtar

2005-07-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-12 07:48, Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I am running 5.3. I noticed that by default the BSD tar is used. Are there any advantages of gtar over tar? If so which ones? The most important advantage is that it is BSD licensed. Also which compression

Re: tar or gtar

2005-07-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hmmm, I'm not sitting on FreeBSD, but looking at the manpage I can only see -y (bzip2 compression) and -z (gzip compression); I couldn't find an option called -Z. -Z is compress -- possibly gtar only. It's much worse than the alternatives and is only useful for

Re: tar or gtar

2005-07-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote: Hi all. I am running 5.3. I noticed that by default the BSD tar is used. Are there any advantages of gtar over tar? If so which ones? Also which compression switch is more efficient -z or -Z ? It depends what you need. If you need command-line argument

Re: tar or gtar

2005-07-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-12 14:26, Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hmmm, I'm not sitting on FreeBSD, but looking at the manpage I can only see -y (bzip2 compression) and -z (gzip compression); I couldn't find an option called -Z. -Z is compress -- possibly gtar only. It's