diff -Naur libarchive-2.4.0.orig/tar/bsdtar.1 libarchive-2.4.0/tar/bsdtar.1
--- libarchive-2.4.0.orig/tar/bsdtar.1	2007-10-07 06:27:48.000000000 +0000
+++ libarchive-2.4.0/tar/bsdtar.1	2007-11-16 10:42:02.000000000 +0000
@@ -155,13 +155,35 @@
 .It Fl -format Ar format ( Fl W Cm format Ns = Ns Ar format )
 (c mode only)
 Use the specified format for the created archive.
-Supported formats include
-.Dq cpio ,
-.Dq pax ,
-.Dq shar ,
-and
-.Dq ustar .
-Other formats may also be supported; see
+Following formats are supported. If none is specified,
+"restricted pax" (mostly compatible with ustar) is used.
+.Bl -tag -compact -width 8n -offset indent
+.It ustar
+standard tar archive compatible with the most of tar(1) implementations
+.It pax
+extended tar format introduced by POSIX 1003.1-2001 standard
+.It posix
+synonym of pax
+.It odc
+standard cpio archive
+.It cpio
+synonym of odc
+.It newc
+SVR4 format cpio archive
+.It arbsd
+static library compatible with BSD ar(1)
+.It ar
+synonym of arbsd
+.It arsvr4
+static library compatible with SVR4 ar(1)
+.It argnu
+synonym of arsvr4
+.It shar
+shell archive composed of text files only
+.It shardump
+shell archive supporting binary files, but depends on uuencode and uudecode
+.El
+See
 .Xr libarchive-formats 5
 for more information about currently-supported formats.
 .It Fl f Ar file
@@ -169,11 +191,14 @@
 The filename can be
 .Pa -
 for standard input or standard output.
-If not specified, the default tape device will be used.
-(On
-.Fx ,
-the default tape device is
-.Pa /dev/sa0 . )
+If not specified,
+.Pa standard input
+or
+.Pa standard output
+will be used on Fink. Generally speaking, omitting the
+.Fl f
+option is a bad practice because the default is usually a tape device
+(such as /dev/sa0) in other UNIX-like platforms.
 .It Fl -fast-read ( Fl W Cm fast-read )
 (x and t mode only)
 Extract or list only the first archive entry that matches each pattern
@@ -438,15 +463,6 @@
 .Xr environ 7
 for more information.
 .El
-.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width ".Ev BLOCKSIZE"
-.It Pa /dev/sa0
-The default tape device, if not overridden by the
-.Ev TAPE
-environment variable or the
-.Fl f
-option.
-.El
 .Sh EXIT STATUS
 .Ex -std
 .Sh EXAMPLES
@@ -672,10 +688,7 @@
 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
-.Fx
-beginning with
-.Fx 1.0 .
+in FreeBSD beginning with FreeBSD 1.0 .
 .Pp
 This is a complete re-implementation based on the
 .Xr libarchive 3
diff -Naur libarchive-2.4.0.orig/tar/bsdtar.c libarchive-2.4.0/tar/bsdtar.c
--- libarchive-2.4.0.orig/tar/bsdtar.c	2007-09-16 23:30:14.000000000 +0000
+++ libarchive-2.4.0/tar/bsdtar.c	2007-11-16 10:01:44.000000000 +0000
@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@
 
 	/* Default: open tape drive. */
 	bsdtar->filename = getenv("TAPE");
+#if !(defined(__APPLE__) && defined(__MACH__)) /* default to stdio on MacOS X/Fink */
 	if (bsdtar->filename == NULL)
 		bsdtar->filename = _PATH_DEFTAPE;
+#endif
 
 	/* Default: preserve mod time on extract */
 	bsdtar->extract_flags = ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_TIME;