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From: tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com. (Thomas J. Gilg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: using tar on nfs file system.
Message-ID: <101020055@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com.>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:38:27 GMT
References: <1991Jun17.195903.20887@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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>  	tar: ERROR!! Cannot archive foo.  It is of type nfs_dir.

> The funny thing is that if they had just taken the Berkeley tar and compiled
> it, instead of mucking with it, it would work just fine.

I suspect the mucking they did was to support the "-A" option.   Using -A,
tar captures file type info.   The flaw was that they still look at file typing
without -A specified.   All Apollo-isms should be ignored if -A isn't given.

Thomas Gilg
tomg@cv.hp.com