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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: tar
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Date: 17 Feb 91 12:18:24 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?

I am trying to set up a new Minix machine, and I need a working tar.
Thanks very much for responding either by email, or posting.

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Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6       kjh@usc.edu      ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh