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From: hetrick@SPARKY.EEEL.NIST.GOV (Paul Hetrick)
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Subject: Re: Trouble with untarring (was: Re: cnews/wnews/rn)
Keywords: pax
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Date: 27 Jun 91 16:50:35 GMT
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I've been fallowing the troubles with tar and on occasion ustar,  I've been
using pax since I've have it. (I think it came with the 3.1 update.) I have
only had it break on one file, and I'm almost sure it was the files fault
 (it broke the SunOS's tar as well.)  The syntax for pax is simpler than
tar too, once you get used to the difference: pax -rf file.tar works well.

  Hope this helps,
    Paul S. Hetrick
    hetrick@eeel.nist.gov