Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: tar under Interactive unix
Message-ID: <1990Oct09.120122.2263@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Oct 90 12:01:22 GMT
References: <3494@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Oct9.002629.16247@wolves.uucp>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Oct9.002629.16247@wolves.uucp> ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
>Whatever the ISC supplied "tar" does is whatever it does.  By
>definition, tar is an imported command to System V from the BSD
>universe.

If I remember correctly tar is the original tape archiver that came
with version 6, PWB, and version 7 UNIX.  Then it diverged a bit in 
BSD, Xenix and AT&T UNIXs (similar to the way that UNIX itself diverged).

The one included with System V R3.2 and later is the result of the Xenix
tar being merged back into the AT&T tar.


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