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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Tar broken on 4.3BSD?
Message-ID: <8336@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 87 14:53:18 GMT
References: <11036@brl-adm.ARPA>
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Reply-To: dawn!stpeters@steinmetz.UUCP (Dick St.Peters)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <11036@brl-adm.ARPA> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>Only a novice or a fool would use absolute pathnames in a tar command.

"fool" is much too kind a description.

>	(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!!

This time of year?  Your ETHICS.c has a bug in it.
--
Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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