gtar and tar differences

[Peter Remirez]

HI,

Could anyone point out the key differences between gtar and tar in terms of their features and performances?

I have tried searching for their differences over the web but to no avail.

I was wondering if anyone could provide a URL which contains such information, or do have documentations outlining such differences to share?

Thanks

[Massimo Bianchi]

essentially:

tar - proprietary compiled, files up to a total size of 2G

gtar - publicy avaiable code, supports files up to 8G (if i remember well)

Massimo

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/readme.html

Robert-Jan.

[T G Manikandan]

One thing what is familiar is that

tar -- does not support files above 2Gb
GNUtar--support files larger than 2GB.

[Simone Benzi_1]

Hi,

tar-1.13.25 GNU version of tar, a tape file archiver. Although tar is supplied
with HP-UX, gtar has more options and handles absolute paths as relative paths,
restores the original dates of directories when extracting and also supports
large file systems.


http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/

and

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/readme.html