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From: larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: aha1542 and Archive 2150 Panic broblem solved
Summary: gnu tar
Message-ID: <511257@nstar.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 90 00:41:28 GMT
References: <1173@digiw.UUCP>
Organization: Northern Star, Notre Dame, IN USA
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In article <1173@digiw.UUCP>, petri@digiw.UUCP (Petri Alhola) writes:
> 
> 	Now the SCSI tape works nicely, i can now backup all of our systems
> 	over NFS with gnu tar.
> 

I am just wondering why you are using gnu tar verses the other versions
of tar out there?

The reason I ask is that I too will be looking for a replacment tar, and
would like to know why you selected the gnu release.

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