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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: tar under Interactive unix
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.121032.16745@virtech.uucp>
Date: 11 Oct 90 12:10:32 GMT
References: <3494@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Oct9.002629.16247@wolves.uucp> <1990Oct09.120122.2263@virtech.uucp> <1990Oct10.211911.9236@robobar.co.uk>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <1990Oct10.211911.9236@robobar.co.uk> ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) writes:
>cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>
>> The one included with System V R3.2 and later is the result of the Xenix
>> tar being merged back into the AT&T tar.
>
>Does the generic 3.2 tar support the 'q' option that SCO does (though
>*un*documented) which says something like "stop after the first matching
>file" ?

A simple test of "tar -qvf -" before posting the question would have
answered your question:

	tar: q: unknown option
	Usage:.....

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