Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: tar under Interactive unix
Message-ID: <1990Oct09.114759.1025@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Oct 90 11:47:59 GMT
References: <3494@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <3494@skye.ed.ac.uk> richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>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?

Yes. (so you have to use tar cf - or tar cvf file to get a good tar file).

>Is this standard System V brain damage?

I believe it is. (Interactive would not be so stupid as to add this 
blunder to the code).

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