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On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:05:43PM -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> Spider wrote:	[Tue Aug 05 2003, 06:43:56AM EDT]
> > Does this mean we can start implementing "ln -s star tar"  in our
> > systems?   (star is another tar implementation thats more posix
> > compliant than GNU tar is. )
> This already seems to be the case on my system.
>=20
> $ epm -qf /usr/bin/tar
> star-1.5_alpha14
GNU tar is installed in /bin/tar
Star installs in /usr/bin/tar

While Star may be more posix compliant, be very careful with it, as
things that depend on GNU tar don't like it (eg amanda).

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