NEW TAR

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 10:37:28AM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> By default, /usr/bin/tar is now a symlink pointing
> to /usr/bin/bsdtar.
> 
> How will this affect you?
> 
> Most people should not notice the change.  bsdtar
> accepts the most popular gtar command-line options, reads
> gtar files, and generally does what most people
> expect from a modern tar implementation.
> 
> However, bsdtar is not a clone of gtar.  If you rely
> on specific gtar features, then you should be using gtar.
> 
> What are the differences?
> 
  * Don't forget to mention it can be faster than GNU tar, too :)

Great job!

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