Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/08/30/14:32:20
This is to both Andris and Martin------
At 02:28 PM 8/30/98 GMT, you wrote:
>Andris Pavenis (pavenis AT lanet DOT lv) wrote:
>: One hint for poeple who sets TMPDIR to ramdrive. Try to unpack
>: large enough .tar.gz or .tgz archive with GNU tar, for example:
>:
>: tar xzvf egcs-19980824.tar.gz
>:
>: and You'll see that simple setting TMPDIR to ramdrive breaks GNU
>: tar. A simplest solution is adding additional lines
>
>I haven't noticed this.
I have not either.
>Isn't this what happens if your drive fills up? Wouln't this happen if
>your TMPDIR only can hold less than necessary regardless whether it's
>on a RAMDISK or not?
>
>I think the answer is yes to those two quetsions.
>
>
>Homlboe, Symphony No. 6,
>
> MartinS
Andris--
I have detarred and uncompressed a lot of stuff with my configuration and
have had no problem once I got the right sequence. What I mean is my only
problem has been with me and not with the temporary directory setup. So, at
least for now, I have to agree with Martin that the temp directory seems to
be no problem with tar at least with what I have done.
Ralph
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