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From: EIGALY%yubgef51@pucc.princeton.edu (Cedomir Igaly, +38-41-420-639)
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Subject: Re: tar
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Date: 17 Feb 91 22:32:22 GMT
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>A while ago, there was much comment about tar not working.  I just ran
>into the problem.
>
>I did           tar c - . | compress | vol 1440 /dev/ps1
>and             vol -u 1440 /dev/ps1 | uncompress | tar x - .
>
>and I found that tar couldn't create directories!  :-(
>
>THIS MAKES TAR USELESS!!!!!
>
>You can't use tar for backup purposes, or for moving files between
>machines, if any subdirectories are involved.
>
>Has anybody fixed this?  Or ported some other version of tar?

Yes. Tar trying to start mkdir as /bin/mkdir, and you probably have
mkdir in /usr/bin. Solution is simple - just put mkdir in /bin, or
change definition in tar.c. This last works fine for me.

Cedomir Igaly