On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:19:46AM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
Shouldn't there be a tar command somewhere on the
system, as installed?
# ls -l /bin/tar
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root 17724 May 16 15:19 /bin/tar
Perhaps you might want to get a better image (you have been
recommended one already) or reinstall.
Why guessing?
http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/tar