On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 18:48:57 -0500 (EST) Salvatore Domenick Desiano <sal@ri.cmu.edu> wrote:
o > On Tiger, at least, gnutar and tar are the same program and don't o > actually seem to be gnutar (they lack many of the options). o o On Tiger (10.4) tar is gnutar is GNU tar 1.14 (and supports --no-same-owner)
Fascinating. Upon further investigation, the *man pages* for tar on Tiger are not gnutar, even though the binaries are.
I don't think you get it right... This is my situation (and yours is probably similar): I have bsd tar in /usr/bin/tar and bsd tar manual in /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1 . If I type "man tar" I get bsd man , but if i run tar i get gnutar, just like you. Here is the explanation: enrico@esoel:enrico$ echo $PATH /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/Users/enrico/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin enrico@esoel:enrico$ dpkg -L tar |grep man enrico@esoel:enrico$ which tar /sw/bin/tar Fink path comes before system path but fink (gnu) tar doesn't have a manpage. Bye Enrico PS Pay attention to your dependencies... and to your paths ;-)