From:	Michal Mertl <xmerm05 AT manes DOT vse DOT cz>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Bug in TAR
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 1997 18:30:22 +0100
Organization:	Prague University of Economics
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Message-ID:	<Pine.ULT.3.95.971118182224.8222A-100000@manes.vse.cz>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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There is a bug in DJGPP port of TAR (1.12).
It states in docs that it fully supports dos absolute pathnames but when I
start it with "tar -cf thefile.tar c:/foo/thefile.txt" in directory c:/foo it
crashes with SIGSEGV.

Michal "MiMe" Mertl
  xmerm05 AT vse DOT cz

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