On Aug 9, 2009, at 7:00 AM, freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org wrote: > I had no problems using that command line with GNU tar versions > 1.14 and > 1.22. I'd grab the source and upgrade if I were you: > http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.tar.gz I upgraded and everything is fine now. Thanks.