Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!tcdmath!ajudge From: ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: GNU-tar vs dump(1) Summary: Please post gnu tar to comp.sources.misc Keywords: gnu tar Message-ID: <215@maths.tcd.ie> Date: 13 Jan 89 21:12:39 GMT References: <17999@adm.BRL.MIL> <629@mks.UUCP> <11@estinc.UUCP> <10797@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <1966@netmbx.UUCP> Reply-To: ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) Organization: Maths Dept., Trinity College, Dublin Lines: 11 In article <1966@netmbx.UUCP> felix@netmbx.UUCP (Felix Gaehtgens) writes: >everybody's talking about GNU-tar and i'm convinced! it's (from what i've >read) much better than tar, dump, restore, cpio, etc. > >but how about posting it in comp.sources.unix, comp.sources.misc or so? then >we all can have a copy to evaluate. I agree, perhaps comp.sources.misc would be better given the current lead time on comp.sources.unix. -- Alan Judge, Dept. of Maths., Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. ajudge@maths.tcd.ie Stupid Mailers: ...!uunet!maths.tcd.ie!ajudge