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From: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Tar(1) portability???
Message-ID: <7@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 21:25:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 21:25:22 1986
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References: <535@smeagol.UUCP> <538@smeagol.UUCP> <3144@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: fnf@unisoft.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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In article <3144@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>> (3) System V 'tar' doesn't like the directory header info that BSD tar puts
>> on it.  You must use the '-o' flag in BSD tar to suppress this.
>
>It may not like it, but it will tolerate it; it just prints error messages
>and continues when it sees the directory header info.
>

Perhaps this is true of most system V's, but have you tried it on a
PDP-11 under System V Release 0?  It made a directory with some VERY
interesting filenames, the first (and last) time I tried it.

-Fred