Things to remove from /rescue

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 4:50 PM +0300 7/17/03, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 17, 2003, David O'Brien <obrien at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>>  - tar, pax (w/{bz,g}zip) can do everything GNU tar can.
>
>As someone said, people are accustomed to tar, it's in
>fingers.  I like to use pax for copying directory hierarchies
>(pax -rw), but for every other task use tar. Will learn pax
>if needed, no problem.

'tar' is programmed into my fingers too, but I must admit
that I like the idea of limiting the amount of GNU-licensed
bits in /rescue.  I guess gzip needs to be there, is there
anything else that's gnu-ish?

[hopefully this is the last bit of paint that I will add to
this potential bikeshed...]

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu