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From: mikel@codas.UUCP (Mikel Manitius)
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Subject: Re: Ultrix (and other) tar formats
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Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 18:09:11 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

I have found that BSD tar is *not* identical to System V tar format,
this gives me a great problem, since I have many source tapes of BSD
that I would like to read on a System V!
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