Subject: Four tar problems
From: [email-masked] (Scott Kempf)

12 Dec 1996 10:22:41 -0800
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There are a number of problems with tar.

    Tar doesn't properly overwrite files
	after "echo x > x; tar cvf y x; tar xvf y x; cat x"
	    x hold "x\nx\n" instead of "x\n"
    "touch x; tar cvf y x" produces
        "getgrent call, and it isn't done yet."
    "echo x > x; tar cvfz y.gz x; tar tfz y.gz"
        fails, this probably a binary vs text problem
    "rm -f y; tar tf y" reports "No such process" instead of "No such file"

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Scott Kempf ([email-masked])
Running gnu-win32 beta 17
under Windows 95.
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