Unix without tar?

[Guy Harris]

>The answer he got says that the 3B2 tar is not necessarily compatible
>with the industry standard tar...

Sounds like another turkey - the S5R3 "tar" is minimally changed from
the V7 one, so unless they consider some "tar" other than the one they
themselves put out 10 years ago to be "the industry standard tar" I have
no idea what they're talking about. 

Even the BSD "tar" isn't massively changed from the V7 one (at least not
externally, although later versions have been somewhat optimized
internally) - the default block size is different, but you can override
that on the command line, and it puts out entries for directories as
well as files, but 1) you can tell it not to with the "o" flag and 2)
those entries don't seem to do anything to older "tar"s other than cause
some annoying warnings to be printed out (the directory modes aren't set
from the "tar" file, but that's life.