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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: tar under Interactive unix
Message-ID: <3494@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Oct 90 18:08:39 GMT
Reply-To: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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Can it really be that under Interactive "tar cv" writes the names of the
files to standard output, so that "tar cvf -" produces a corrupted file?
Is this standard System V brain damage?

-- a BSD user

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