Re: Any good tar alternatives?

On 2006-04-19, zeecanvas@xxxxxxxxx <zeecanvas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks a lot to all contributors. I finally decided to compile the
latest stable GNU Tar version. Not my favourite choice, but GNU tar is
the standard nowadays. I also tried "star", but 1)The source code
distribution is a bit messy (ships with files which belong to other

Have you looked at pax?

/dmfh

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