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From: pak@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Peter A. Krauss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Problem with A/UX 2.0's tar and symbolic links.
Keywords: tar, symbolic links
Message-ID: <pak.656085892@request>
Date: 16 Oct 90 14:04:52 GMT
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chn@lanl.gov (Charles Neil) writes:

>Has anyone else run into this problem?  My configuration
>is A/UX 2.0 on a IIfx.  If I have a directory which contains,
>among all of its subdirectories, a total of more than 27 
>symbolic links, then tar will dump core when it encounters the
>28th link during the course of archiving the directory.

Same problem with A/UX 2.0 on a IIx machine...
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