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by kjs3
2348 days ago
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The BSD's tar is derived from the old 4BSD tar which was derived from the original. Pretty sure SCO Unix (yes, you can still buy it) is System V tar. Probably Solaris, too. I recall AIX tar is...something else, none of the above. I don't recall the details. |
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A tar command appeared in Seventh Edition Unix, which was released in January, 1979. There have been numerous other implementations, many of which extended the file format. John Gilmore's pdtar public-domain implementation (circa November, 1987) was quite influential, and formed the basis of GNU tar. GNU tar was included as the standard system tar in FreeBSD beginning with FreeBSD 1.0. This is a complete re-implementation based on the libarchive(3) library. It was first released with FreeBSD 5.4 in May, 2005.