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1 total messages Started by gnulists Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:45

#1162

Author: gnulists
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:45

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tar 1.11.1 has an annoying habit of printing out a number instead of a name
if it can't find the directory to untar into...

Here's a patch: (I wish everything was this simple!)

leisner@annapurna$ !rcsdiff
rcsdiff -c tar.c
===================================================================
RCS file: tar.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 tar.c
*** 1.1 1992/12/27 23:55:25
--- tar.c       1992/12/28 00:07:12
***************
*** 433,439 ****
  #if 0
                case 'C':
                        if(chdir(optarg)<0)
!                               msg_perror("Can't change directory to %d",optarg);
                        break;
  #endif
  
--- 433,439 ----
  #if 0
                case 'C':
                        if(chdir(optarg)<0)
!                               msg_perror("Can't change directory to %s",optarg);
                        break;
  #endif
  
***************
*** 1051,1057 ****
        if (nlp->fake)
          {
            if (nlp->change_dir && chdir (nlp->change_dir))
!             msg_perror ("Can't change to directory %d", nlp->change_dir);
            namelist = 0;
            return 1;
          }
--- 1051,1057 ----
        if (nlp->fake)
          {
            if (nlp->change_dir && chdir (nlp->change_dir))
!             msg_perror ("Can't change to directory %s", nlp->change_dir);
            namelist = 0;
            return 1;
          }


--
marty
leisner.henr801c@xerox.com  leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
Member of the League for Programming Freedom

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