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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Ultrix (and other) tar formats
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Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 17:59:25 EDT
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> Is the Ultrix tar format identical with the BSD tar format?

One should hope so; if it weren't, Ultrix "tar" would be useless.  Since
Ultrix is a 4.2BSD derivative, the "tar"s are probably the same program
modulo some bug fixes.  However, most UNIXes out there are more-or-less V7
derivatives so *all* their "tar" programs are related and have the same
"tar" format.  (Were that not the case, "tar" would be a lousy way of
exchanging data between machines.)

	Guy Harris


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