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From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Another NFS gotcha
Message-ID: <HANCHE.91Mar21205748@hufsa.imf.unit.no>
Date: 21 Mar 91 19:57:48 GMT
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Organization: The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
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I have seen quite a number of features that made me want to throw our
Apollos out of the nearest window, but the following beats most of them:

% tar cvf /dev/null fixes
tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive fixes.  It is of type nfs_dir.
tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive fixes/Xt_ack_page_2.PS.  It is of type nfs_file.
tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive fixes/fix-1.  It is of type nfs_file.
tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive fixes/fix-10.  It is of type nfs_file.
tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive fixes/fix-11.  It is of type nfs_file.
tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive fixes/fix-2.  It is of type nfs_file.
......

Apollo has it's own, wonderful network filing system, right?  What
makes you think they would want to support the network filing system
of their main competitor?  Give me a break.

- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
  Division of Mathematical Sciences
  The Norwegian Institute of Technology
  N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAY