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From: karl@robot.in-berlin.de (Karl-P. Huestegge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: tar under Interactive unix
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.162641.29796@robot.in-berlin.de>
Date: 21 Oct 90 16:26:41 GMT
References: <3494@skye.ed.ac.uk> <1990Oct09.114759.1025@virtech.uucp> <4217@altos86.Altos.COM>
Organization: K.-P. Huestegge, Sytemanalyse und Beratung, Berlin
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In <4217@altos86.Altos.COM> ti@altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) writes:

>>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?
>>
>>>Is this standard System V brain damage?
>>I believe it is. (Interactive would not be so stupid as to add this 
>>blunder to the code).

>[...] came from Xenix.  The Microsoft tar has the wrong behavior of
>writing the file listing to stdout.

>For the record, all current Altos UNIX (not Xenix) releases for all its
>systems has the correct tar behavior.

None of The 286 and 386 SCO Xenix Versions I used (2.1 to 2.3.2) had
this behavior. All tar's work correct and output the verbose options
to stderr.

Karl-Peter Huestegge                       karl@robot.in-berlin.de
Berlin Friedenau                           ..fub!utopia!robot!karl