>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jun 18 22:27:05 2002
>for whatever reason, star and gnu tar commandline switches are not 1:1
>compatible. you can rant all you like about how gnu tar sux and star is
>superior but it doesn't matter if you can't drop star into a system and
>have everything "just work".
>that's partially why postfix is more popular than qmail. because postfix
>is a drop-in replacement for sendmail, while qmail is not. same situation
>for star.
Star is a drop in replacement for TAR, GNU tar is _not_ a drop in replacement
for TAR and for the same reason, star cannot be GNU tar compatible at command
line.
People who find that star does not behave 100% the same as GNU tar use non
standard extensions from GNU tar.
Jörg
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