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 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612200124.SAA17514.cygnus.gnu-win32@billie.Colorado.EDU> Original-To: duck AT novell DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: Mail from 'The Duck ' dated: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:29:19 -0800 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ->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 -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 University of Colorado | Fax: 303-492-2758 ECE Dept. | Email: Fabio AT Colorado DOT EDU Boulder CO 80309-0425 | WWW: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".