Forget gnutar, let's talk about tar which was also missing. Can you show me that tar should be missing from a new os x install and is installed only with xcode

Forget gnutar, let's talk about tar which was also missing. Can you show me that tar should be missing from a new os x install and is installed only with xcode tools? The problem is, if you could, that still wouldn't explain things, but I can tell you're dying to be right. Unlikely stuff happens, just less often. I appreciate that you were trying to be helpful and to you I'm just "random internet guy" but I'm being honest, I already fixed the problem, and it was as I am stating. Telling someone staring at a blue moon that "that's unlikely" is just going to piss them off. You've squandered the goodwill and karma your original helpful comment in the other thread merited. This conversation has nothing to do with xcode anymore, but a lot to do with tool. Can we stop the "it works on my machine" BS now and move on?