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From: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: tar under Interactive unix
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.072115.3825@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Date: 12 Oct 90 07:21:15 GMT
References: <3494@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Oct9.002629.16247@wolves.uucp> <1990Oct09.120122.2263@virtech.uucp> <1990Oct10.211911.9236@robobar.co.uk> <1990Oct11.121032.16745@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell)
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In article <1990Oct11.121032.16745@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>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:.....

This is assuming, of course, that you had access to a system which ran
a generic SVR3.2...... Which I don't believe ronald does....

Dylan.
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