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From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
Date: Fri,  4 Feb 2005 11:13:47 +0200
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> I've written a new (faster) tar and at Russ's suggestion have made it
> recognise the compressed tar archives.  I think it's up to Russ
> whether or not it becomes the sstandard tar.

I also note that APE has PAX in it, probably an ancient version.  I'm
no fan of PAX and I agree with Rob that APE is inconsistent with the
Plan 9 philosophy, but I don't think perpetuating obsolence is a great
option either, so updating ape/pax may be worth looking into.

++L