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From: ted@braggvax.arpa
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Tar broken on 4.3BSD?
Message-ID: <11091@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 4 Jan 88 15:51:04 GMT
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While I enjoy being called a fool and a novice as well as the next guy,
and so deeply appreciate all the helpful responses from the net, the fact
remains that 4.3 tar is BROKEN.

I never implied that using absolute pathnames in tar is a politically
correct or generally nice thing to do.  In fact, when I found the bug,
I was just using tar to generate some test traffic on a tape drive, not
for anything 'useful'.  However, there have been rare times when I have used
absolute pathnames with tar ON PURPOSE for reasons I considered good
and sufficient.  The fact that a behavior I have seen from v7 onwards
(and one still consistent with the manual page) no longer works I
consider a BUG.

(Deep breath)
Now, does anyone have a fix?

				Ted Nolan
				ted@braggvax.arpa