On Thu, 16 May 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > >Install gtar from ports. > > I've incurred aborted backups with tar (+ gzip) lately too. What is > superior about gtar...???
As it turns out, FreeBSD's tar is in fact GNU tar, albeit an older version. % tar --version GNU tar version 1.11.2 If you want to see all the changes in gtar from ports, then: # cd /usr/ports/archivers/gtar # make extract # less work/tar-1.13.25/NEWS # less work/tar-1.13.25/Changelog -- Tod McQuillin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
