Re: Default tar for 1.3 and later

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> is there any objection to switch the default tar to BSD tar?
> GNU tar will be kept, since some features for tape handling
> and updating are missing in BSD tar, but the latter does a
> better job for the normal use cases.
>
> Joerg

	Keeping both will only produce a confused user.  If we are to keep
	both of them, some type of information needs to be given about the
	missing features.

				-Hiten
				Hiten Pandya
				hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx