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From: paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: tar under Interactive unix
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.193338.6173@actrix.co.nz>
Date: 9 Oct 90 19:33:38 GMT
References: <3494@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Actrix Public Access UNIX, Wellington, New Zealand
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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?

I have used tar pipes many times, and never had any corruption
problems under ISC 2.02 386/ix.  Sure, names do go to stdout, as
part of the archive -- the verbose list goes to stderr.
-- 
Paul Gillingwater, paul@actrix.co.nz