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From: stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: multivol piped to tar
Message-ID: <293@bms-at.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Nov-86 21:25:13 EST
Article-I.D.: bms-at.293
Posted: Sat Nov 29 21:25:13 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Nov-86 02:45:15 EST
References: <360@prairie.UUCP> <367@xios.UUCP>
Organization: Business Management Systems, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: tar has a bug

In article <367@xios.UUCP>, tony@xios.UUCP (Keeper Of News) writes:

> 	atob | uncompress | tar xf -

	*** doesn't work ***

> 	atob > file
> 	uncompress < file | tar xf -
> 
> it works fine.  Related problem?? 

This is a bug in 'tar'.  On our version (Xenix 2.1.3) I can fix
it with:

	atob | uncompress | tar xfb - 1

I have never seen the source to tar, so I don't what the underlying
problem is.  Evidently default block sizes get messed up on extracts.
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Stuart D. Gathman	<..!seismo!dgis!bms-at!stuart>