Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cme!durer!clark From: clark@cme.nist.gov (Steve Clark) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: more uses for mode 000 (was: Summary: What SUID, SGID...) Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 23:17:27 GMT References: <1991Feb4.124123.25558@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1991Feb11.214054.15937@athena.mit.edu> Sender: news@cme.nist.gov Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology Lines: 20 In-reply-to: jik@athena.mit.edu's message of 11 Feb 91 21:40:54 GMT In article , I wrote: Steve> cd $HOME Steve> echo ./subdir/hugedir | tar cX - . >>>>> On 11 Feb 91 21:40:54 GMT, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) said: Jonathan> What version of Unix are you using? What version of tar? Ooops. I made a mistaken generalization, it seems. Since Gnu tar does the obvious thing with the `-' filename after -X, I assumed SunOS tar and, by extension, others would as well (and a rather unconscious assumption it was, I might add). I was wrong. I hope this doesn't set off two more weeks of "my tar does[n't]" messages ... -- -steve ------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Clark National Institute for Standards and Technology (formerly NBS) clark@cme.nist.gov ..uunet!cme-durer!clark (301)975-3595 / 3544