Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!yale.edu!cmcl2!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: help! tar archive paradox Message-ID: <16502@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 22 Jun 91 20:30:22 GMT References: <1991Jun11.173147.3324@cirrus.com> <1991Jun15.150346.24206@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <15618@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <15618@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> sutton@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Richard Sutton) writes: >But what will contain the tar archive that contains all tar archives that do >not contain themselves? Therein lies the paradox! I wrote an AI program to search for such an archive, and it created one but since it's inside a Black Hole that resulted from the creation, I'm unable to retrieve the solution to share it with you. Sorry.