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[Bug-tar] Re: Question re: GNU tar


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: [Bug-tar] Re: Question re: GNU tar
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:34:04 -0700
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At Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:32:00 -0700, "Steve Emerson" <address@hidden> writes:

> Is gnutar essentially tar in a GNU/Linux environment
> or is it something completely different that I can install in my IRIX
> environment and begin using to write tapes?

Both.  It's a separate implementation of "tar".

> If so, what will this entail?

Download GNU tar, run "configure", "make", then "make install".
<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz>

Probably someone has already built it for IRIX; SGI has some freeware
site somewhere but I don't recall where it is.




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