>From: Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> If you only use tar x or tar c, and don't know what else is supported you >> believe that GNU tar is sufficient.
>FWIW Debian now includes star as an optional package for both 3.0 and >sid (unstable); however, the default is GNU tar because that's what >people are used to. But star is there if people want it... But if it does not get installed by default people who don't know it will not use it. >If you want it more widely used perhaps you should consider making an >LSB package of it (or finding someone with enough interest to do it >for you). This makes no sense. Star compiles and runs on > 30 different platforms. Linux is just one of them, I cannot put effort into a single system... Jörg EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]