Unix without tar?

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat Sep 2 04:48:03 AEST 1989


 >That's not entirely correct.  I've seen some 3b2 machines without tar.
 >We still ship product for the 3b2 in cpio format because of this.
 >(Note: 3b2 is an AT&T box).

Yes, but "tar" *is* in the AT&T S5 source releases; some turkey probably
decided to leave it out of the binary release in question for the 3B2. 



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