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From: tony@xios.UUCP (Keeper Of News)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: multivol piped to tar
Message-ID: <367@xios.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 15:31:37 EST
Article-I.D.: xios.367
Posted: Wed Nov 26 15:31:37 1986
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Organization: Xios Systems Corp., Ottawa, Ont.
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Summary: 


I have a similar problem on a number of machines when I use the
'untarmail' script which we got with Compress 4.0.
What happens is that this script executes the pipeline

	atob | uncompress | tar xf -

and when tar has to create a directory, it hangs.  If you kill it and
restart it, it works until it has to make another directory.  If you
change this to

	atob > file
	uncompress < file | tar xf -

it works fine.  Related problem?? 
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