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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: tar xf - (was Re: Microport Unix V/AT and 9600 baud)
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Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 21:23:17 EDT
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In article <8896@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>On other systems, `zcat | cat | tar xf -' may work.

The best way to reblock I/O in a pipeline is to use "dd", not "cat".