From:	fabio AT billie DOT Colorado DOT EDU (Fabio Somenzi)
Subject:	Re: b17.1: tar -x *appends* to existing file ?!
19 Dec 1996 18:01:23 -0800 :
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	dated: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:29:19 -0800
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->When I use b17.1 tar to extract a file from an archive, and the file already
->exists,  tar will append the existing file with data from the archive, rather
->than overlay it.  See below.  Does this happen to you too?

Yes. It happened with b16 too. You have to be especially careful if you
have, say, both makefile and Makefile in the same directory. They are
concatenated.

Fabio
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