Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!ccncsu!lamar!sutton From: sutton@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Richard Sutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: help! tar archive paradox Message-ID: <15618@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Date: 21 Jun 91 18:50:42 GMT References: <1991Jun11.173147.3324@cirrus.com> <1991Jun15.150346.24206@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU Reply-To: sutton@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Richard Sutton) Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 10 >In article <1991Jun11.173147.3324@cirrus.com>, dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes: > >> Help! I want to make a tar archive that contains all tar archives >> that do not contain themselves. Is there a command option that will >> do this? Thanks!! But what will contain the tar archive that contains all tar archives that do not contain themselves? Therein lies the paradox! :-)