On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:31:42AM +0200, der Mouse wrote:
> > there are batch of security holes found for GNU tar, and we still
> > don't have the replacement (like tar-compatible pax).
> 
> I've written a tar that owes nothing to anything else.  It's in the
> public domain and hence is free for NetBSD to steal, anything from
> lifting it verbatim to swiping ideas from.
> 
> It doesn't currently have anything like --fast-read; that hadn't
> occurred to me.  Now that it's been pointed out, I'll be adding it; I
> think it's a valuable addition, whether or not NetBSD wants my tar.
> 
> ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/misc/mouse/tar/ in case anyone cares.

I've added this to the Packages Collection as pkgsrc/sysutils/mousetar

Regards,
Alistair