Path: utzoo!mnetor!motto!ecijmm!ecicrl!eci386!jmm From: jmm@eci386.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Unix without tar? Message-ID: <1989Sep1.170531.10131@eci386.uucp> Date: 1 Sep 89 17:05:31 GMT References: <10889@smoke.BRL.MIL> <216@bbxeng.UUCP> <10904@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald) Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc. Lines: 21 In article <10904@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: +In article <216@bbxeng.UUCP> scott@bbxeng.UUCP (Scott-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. + +It's always possible for the vendor to remove "tar", or for the system +administrator to remove it or fail to install it, etc. It's part of +the 3B2 master source distribution from AT&T, however. (Or at least it +has been on the distributions we've received; there have been many UNIX +releases!) + [...] It is also possible (and I've seen in more than one circumstance) for the vendor to put tar in /etc instead of in /bin or /usr/bin - i.e. in the path for root (usually) but for no-one else. Nobody except root would ever want to use tar of course... :-) -- "Software and cathedrals are much the same - | John Macdonald first we build them, then we pray" (Sam Redwine) | jmm@eci386