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From: dfenyes@thesis1.med.uth.tmc.edu (David Fenyes)
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Subject: Re: corrupt tar files ?
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Date: 23 May 91 18:57:34 GMT
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[problems with tar]

Any modern tar will probably produce tars that will bomb Coherent tar.
The fault is /bin/tar's and not the GNU tar or ustar.  (Using GNU tar
with the -o option writes old-format tars for Coherent's /bin/tar).

The solution is to use ustar provided with Coherent, or GNU tar from piggy,
which is tarred with the -o option, to bootstrap you up to the 
modern tar format :-)

David.