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From:	Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	[gentoo-user] Re: star
Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:43:25
Message-Id:	`1534478.YnlE63Q0MJ@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] star by Florian Philipp

1	Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> wrote:
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3	> What I'd like to know: Is it fully backward compatible to tar? Could I
4	> safely unmerge tar and make a symlink from tar to star?
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6	star is fully Posix compliant. GNU tar is not. In theory, there could
7	be problems with GNU tar tar archives if they are unpacked using star.
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9	Alexander Skwar
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