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From: aem@ibiza.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Pack
Keywords: unpack bugs ncr
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Date: 21 Jul 89 18:20:17 GMT
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greg@tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz writes:
>On NCR Tower unix, release 20100, the unpack we have unpacks
>linked packed files. I discovered this because I wanted to
>unpack, then compress the man files, some of which are linked.

>Compress isn't this stupid - it doesn't unpack these files.
>Beware - this is going to cause me some headaches.

What do you expect from System V? Geez.

System V only has hard links. If you modify a file, the link is destroyed.
(I'm probably explaining this badly).

When you unpack a file, it becomes a seperate file.

Someone out there probably has written a script or program to handle
this, but it is not a System V bug -- it's a System V "feature".


aem

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