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1 total messages Started by [STL]Ben Reaves Tue, 02 Oct 1990 02:27

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Author: [STL]Ben Reaves
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 1990 02:27

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Here's a bug that is worth letting everyone know:

    cd /u
    tar cvf /dev/nrctp arai

will NOT put all files & directories under /u/arai on the tape.
Just found that out recently.  Evidently "tar cvf /dev/nrctp /u/arai"
would be OK.

QUESTION:  Is "cd /u/arai ; tar cvf /dev/nrctp ." safe?  Have you ever had
any trouble with this form of tar command?

			-- Ben
			ben@it3.crl.mei.co.jp

P.S.: According to Concurrent (Japan), this is NOT fixed in RTU 5.0
Yappari Masscomp.

I was recently bitten by this bug, after making a tape for someone to bring
overseas;  when he arrived, he called me to complain that I had not put all the
files on the tape!


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