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From: tomb@marque.mu.edu (Tom Baas)
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Subject: tar cvf question
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Date: 24 Mar 91 02:18:51 GMT
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If one were to issue the command: tar cvf *   Where does the data go?
I did this on my machine knowing that I could very quickly fill up my
disk and possibly crash the system.  I found that the first ascii file
in the dirctory ended up being screwed up with what I assumed to be
all the data of all the rest of the files in that directory.

Could someone explain exactly what happens?  (BTW I bet this can be an
excellent way to crash a system.)