Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!mimsy!mojo!eng.umd.edu!sukes From: sukes@eng.umd.edu (Tasuki Hirata) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Problem with A/UX 2.0's tar and symbolic links. Keywords: tar, symbolic links Message-ID: <1990Oct17.181924.21066@eng.umd.edu> Date: 17 Oct 90 18:19:24 GMT References: <65638@lanl.gov> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Reply-To: sukes@eng.umd.edu (Tasuki Hirata) Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park Lines: 21 In article , pak@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Peter A. Krauss) writes: > 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... > -- > +------------------------------------------------------------+ > | Peter A. Krauss (pak@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de) | > +------------------------------------------------------------+ A simple fix is to grab gnu-tar and compile it. It even has rmt support... -- / Tasuki Hirata (sukes@eng.umd.edu) | Intel 80486: / / UUCP: uunet!eng.umd.edu!sukes | Power Tool for the Power Fool /