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Originally Posted by Mark Taylor

cant you softlink in /usr/bin/gtar /opt/freeware/bin/tar to and use that instead of tar ?

Rgds
Mark Taylor

Yes, I can, and that is how I accomplished the job. However, I don't want to leave it this way permanently in case someone else or the system is depending on the AIX version of tar for something. RPM ought to have a mechanism to deal with this sort of thing. Just hoping someone knew what it was.

	AIX AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is the name given to a series of proprietary operating systems sold by IBM for several of its computer system platforms.