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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: more uses for mode 000 (was: Summary: What SUID, SGID...)
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Date: 11 Feb 91 21:40:54 GMT
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In article <CLARK.91Feb11160645@discord.cme.nist.gov>, clark@cme.nist.gov (Steve Clark) writes:
|> cd $HOME
|> echo ./subdir/hugedir | tar cX - .
|> 
|> Is this not portable?

  Neither Ultrix 3.1 or BSD 4.3 appear to support it.  Neither, as far as I
can tell, does A/UX, which supposedly is based on SysV.

  What version of Unix are you using?  What version of tar?

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