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From: forrie@morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: TAR on 3b1
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <143@morwyn.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 91 23:05:00 GMT
References: <136@morwyn.UUCP> <57141@rphroy.UUCP> <1991Jun28.120929.24594@sco.COM>
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tom@sco.COM (Tom Kelly) writes:

| 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.
[ ... ]

Thank you!  Now I know I'm not crazy... ;)

Forrie
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