Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!littlei!intelisc!omepd!mark
From: mark@omepd (Mark Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Tar broken on 4.3BSD?
Message-ID: <2666@omepd>
Date: 31 Dec 87 17:41:21 GMT
References: <11036@brl-adm.ARPA<
Reply-To: mark@omepd.UUCP (Mark Aitken)
Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro
Lines: 18
Keywords: Yes, it really is broken

In article <11036@brl-adm.ARPA< rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
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<Only a novice or a fool would use absolute pathnames in a tar command.
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<	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
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Granted, but tar should not enforce that, e.g. it really is a bug in my
opinion.  

They say that goto's in programming languages are bad, but I'm glad C has 
them (it is MY responsibility to avoid using goto, not the language designer's).

Mark Aitken
mark@omepd.intel.com