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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU.ucsc.edu (99700000)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: 4.3BSD tar r does indeed work correctly
Message-ID: <1483@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 24 Dec 87 06:11:34 GMT
Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu
Reply-To: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes)
Organization: California State Home for the Weird
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Summary: I screwed up

Thanks to all those who replied to my question whether tar r works
under 4.3BSD.  It does indeed.  Our problem turned out to be a local
hack ifdef-ed into mtio.h, and forgetting to recompile tar with
the thing defined.  Red :-)

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