Ultrix (and other) tar formats
Guy Harris
guy at sun.uucp
Mon Sep 30 07:59:25 AEST 1985
> Is the Ultrix tar format identical with the BSD tar format?
One should hope so; if it weren't, Ultrix "tar" would be useless. Since
Ultrix is a 4.2BSD derivative, the "tar"s are probably the same program
modulo some bug fixes. However, most UNIXes out there are more-or-less V7
derivatives so *all* their "tar" programs are related and have the same
"tar" format. (Were that not the case, "tar" would be a lousy way of
exchanging data between machines.)
Guy Harris
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