Subject: Re: b17.1: tar -x *appends* to existing file ?!
From: [email-masked] (Geoffrey Noer)

22 Apr 1997 16:04:13 -0700
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In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]> from "Fabio Somenzi" at Dec 19, 96 06:24:04 pm
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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?

I've verified that this is fixed in upcoming beta 18.

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Geoffrey Noer
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