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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix without tar?
Message-ID: <2413@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 1 Sep 89 18:48:03 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >That's not entirely correct.  I've seen some 3b2 machines without tar.
 >We still ship product for the 3b2 in cpio format because of this.
 >(Note: 3b2 is an AT&T box).

Yes, but "tar" *is* in the AT&T S5 source releases; some turkey probably
decided to leave it out of the binary release in question for the 3B2.