Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!rbj@icst-cmr.arpa
From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Tar broken on 4.3BSD?
Message-ID: <11036@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 29 Dec 87 21:54:14 GMT
Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA
Lines: 25


   Try this on 4.3BSD:

		   cd /tmp
		   tar cf /dev/rmt8 /usr

   Get the error:

   tar: cannot change back?: /tmp//usr: No such file or directory


   Sun tar and all the other tars I have used have no problem with this,
   but 4.3 tar seems to handle absolute path names incorrectly.  Is this
   a known bug, with a fix?  If not, I'll fix it and post the diffs.

Only a novice or a fool would use absolute pathnames in a tar command.

				   Ted Nolan
				   ted@braggvax.arpa


	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
	National Bureau of Standards
	Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688
My CODE of ETHICS is vacationing at famed SCHROON LAKE in upstate New York!!