Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bbn.com!ulowell!swan!asherman From: asherman@dino.ulowell.edu (Aaron Sherman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Tar on the Apollos (Was Re: emacs 18.55 on Apollo SR10.2.p) Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 90 19:02:44 GMT References: <1990Aug16.072024@asterix.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de> Sender: news@swan.ulowell.edu Organization: CPE: University of Lowell -- Lowell, MA Lines: 25 In-reply-to: lambert@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au's message of 17 Aug 90 08:41:52 GMT lambert@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Tim Lambert) writes: There would appear to be a bug in tar: existing files are not truncated. So you need: 1a. rm `tar tf apollo-emacs.tar` I have known for a while that Apollo does not think much of tar, and have, therefore used Gnu tar. Since it ports smoothly with no mods, I would suggest this to anyone who needs to use tar heavily on the Apollos. One more tip: Gnu tar wants to install itself as `tar', which can cause some problems, since you may, at a future date actually need to use the local version. I would suggest installing it as `gtar', instead. Just some thoughts. -AJS -- asherman@dino.ulowell.edu or asherman%cpe@swan.ulowell.edu Note that as of 7/18/90 that's asherman@dino.cpe.ulowell.edu "That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is."