tar-1.11 fails on DEC MIPS Ult-4.2

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1 total messages Started by Jurgen Botz Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:30

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Author: Jurgen Botz
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 01:30

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The default configure for tar produces a broken executable on a
DECstation under Ultrix 4.2.  (I have gcc-2.2.2 and configure finds
and uses it.)

I haven't had time to look more closely at what might be causing it,
but although it reads and writes tapes correctly, upon unarchiving it
fails when it tries to set the modes of the files it creates.  Looks
like some routine gets garbage for a filename...

   tar: cannot change mode of file <assorted 8bit characters here> to
   33152 : no such file or directory

I'm currently swamped with work, otherwise I'd have sent a fix.
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