Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yhe
From: yhe@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (Youda He)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: gnu tar 1.05 truncate file
Message-ID: <91@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: 16 May 89 05:08:00 GMT
Reply-To: yhe@zip.eecs.umich.edu.UUCP (Youda He)
Distribution: gnu.utils.bug
Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept., Ann Arbor, MI
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On building perl 2.18 ftped from tut, I get part aa to af and use the following
command: cat perl.tar*a? | zcat | gnutar xf - &
to create a perl directory, in the directory t I noticed one file being
truncated, (op.flip) since it gives error on TEST. I did it again replace 
gnutar by tar (on sun4), the file is ok from tar. The problem is repeated
once to make sure the gnutar did truncated the file. I don't know if there
are other files being truncated.
gnutar is compiled by gcc 1.35.