Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!tom
From: tom@sco.COM (Tom Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: TAR on 3b1
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.120929.24594@sco.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 91 12:09:29 GMT
References: <136@morwyn.UUCP> <57141@rphroy.UUCP>
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In article <136@morwyn.UUCP>, forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes
about problems with

> |> 	zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf -
> |> 

In <57141@rphroy.UUCP> tkacik@hobbes.cs.gmr.com (Tom Tkacik CS/50) writes:

> The tar on the 3b1 (like all SYSV tar's) does not make you owner of
> the files by default.  To do this you must include -o:
> 
> 	zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvof -
> 
> Do you mean that:
> 
> 	uncompress file.tar.Z
> 	tar xvf file.tar
> 
> does work?  The above will not fix it then.  I have never seen this work
> if the above did not also work.  What error message is tar giving you?

I have seen the behaviour that Forrie has complained about.  There
is no message from tar, it just hangs.  (This problem is independent
of the ownership problem, which is solved with -o as Tom said).
I don't know if the problem is with the pipe, or tar's handling of
standard input, but I suspect the pipe.  I have largely switched
to cpio, and find that it works fine with a pipe.

Tom Kelly (scocan!ancill!tom)