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From: jmc@root44.UUCP (John Collins)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: tar fix
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Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 05:09:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 15 05:09:40 1983
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Personally (running Sys III slowly progressing to V as I get the time), I
changed 'tar' to omit the 'chown' unless the extra letter 'o' is specified.
It is then possible to bring up the original ownership etc if required by
the superuser.

Yes I do know about 'cpio' - but it isn't as portable between different kinds
of hardware.

Another fix I find useful is to optionally bypass checksum errors at the user's
own risk.  He is asked in each case whether he wants to continue.

		John Collins
		Root Computers Ltd
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