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From: corrigan@weber.ucsd.edu (Michael J. Corrigan)
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Subject: Re: Serious tar bug
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Date: 3 Jan 91 02:19:12 GMT
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In article <1991Jan2.221811.26074@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> gdykes@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Gene Dykes) writes:
>Would somebody please try to duplicate this?  I'm running HPUX 7.0
>on a 9000/835.  It would be interesting to know how widespread this
>bogosity is...
>
	It also occurs on the 400 series (7.03) ( they really are compatible )

	4.3 BSD dumps a file in d4 twice which is what you expected.

	I also checked a shortfilename filesystem and tar gets even
	more confused there.

	I imagine this is a trivial recompile to fix on the longfilename
	filesystem.