Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!dpmizar!iquery!matt From: matt@iquery.UUCP (Matt Reedy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Unix without tar? Summary: tar DOES exist on 3B2 Message-ID: <162@iquery.UUCP> Date: 1 Sep 89 22:42:14 GMT References: <10889@smoke.BRL.MIL> <216@bbxeng.UUCP> Organization: Programmed Intelligence, San Antonio Lines: 13 In article <216@bbxeng.UUCP>, scott@bbxeng.UUCP (Engineering) writes: > > That's not entirely correct. I've seen some 3b2 machines without tar. > We still ship product for the 3b2 in cpio format because of this. > (Note: 3b2 is an AT&T box). > We encountered the "missing tar" problem in shipping our 3B2 software also, but found that tar is hiding in the /etc directory on 3B2's. AT&T must now figure tar is a superuser only function (since /etc is included in the path of the root/su login). But any user can invoke tar by simply saying /etc/tar xv etc.etc. matt --- Matthew Reedy UUCP: gatech!petro!iquery!matt Programmed Intelligence Corp. 400 N Loop 1604 E, Suite 330 San Antonio, TX 78232 (512) 490 6684 Fax: (512) 490-3590