another tar 1.05 bug

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1 total messages Started by Don Bennett 433-3311, 408 Sun, 26 Mar 1989 20:41

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Author: Don Bennett 433-3311, 408
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1989 20:41

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Running tar-1.05 on a sun-3, Sun-os 3.5.

Illegal options to tar on the command line cause a segmentation
violation because msg_file is not set before calling getoldopt.

Reproduce via:

   tar cvfF /dev/null .

This will segmentation fault rather than print the illegal
option message.

   Don Bennett           (408)433-3311
   dpb%frame@sun.com      or, sun!frame!dpb
   Frame Technology

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