tar is tar... sort of?

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From: A.Narup
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 02:53

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I would like to have our site start using gnu tar as a standard and have
ran into a couple of issues.

1) I know "tar is tar" but gnu tar has some features that are different
   from other tar commands. Is their a guide, faq, or readme that could
   explain some of these more?

   I did check rtfm.mit.edu, sunsite.unc.edu, and other gnu archives and
   didn't seem to find any.

2) Incremental backups - Does it work? I've seen some contradictions out
   there and would like to know if anyone uses this (and how).


Thanks for the help,
ALan

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