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ripley committed Dec 14, 2023
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% File src/library/utils/man/tar.Rd
% Part of the R package, https://www.R-project.org
% Copyright 2009-2021 R Core Team
% Copyright 2009-2023 R Core Team
% Distributed under GPL 2 or later

\name{tar}
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removed in favour of \command{pax}, and in any case many common
implementations diverged from the former standard.

Many \R platforms use a version of GNU \command{tar}, but the behaviour
seems to be changed with each version. macOS >= 10.6, FreeBSD and Windows
10 use \command{bsdtar}
from the libarchive project (but for macOS a version from 2017 or
earlier, 2010 for High Sierra), and commercial Unixes will have their
own versions. \command{bsdtar} is available for many other platforms:
macOS up to at least 10.9 had GNU \command{tar} as \command{gnutar}
and other platforms, e.g.\sspace{}Solaris, have it as \command{gtar}:
on a Unix-alike \command{configure} will try \command{gnutar} and
\command{gtar} before \code{tar}.
Many \R platforms use a version of GNU \command{tar}, but the
behaviour seems to be changed with each version. macOS >= 10.6,
FreeBSD and Windows 10 use \command{bsdtar} from the libarchive
project (but for macOS often a quite-old version), and commercial
Unixes will have their own versions. \command{bsdtar} is available for
many other platforms: macOS up to at least 10.9 had GNU \command{tar}
as \command{gnutar} and other platforms, e.g.\sspace{}Solaris, have it
as \command{gtar}: on a Unix-alike \command{configure} will try
\command{gnutar} and \command{gtar} before \code{tar}.

%% Heirloom Toolchest (http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/) is
%% another implementation available on NetBSD, but probably not the default.
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