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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 13:13:26 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Not finding hidden files in root directory
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Not unless you were trying to unpack the archive in "/".  This seems to be
the only place where the problem shows up...

Larry


At 01:11 PM 11/17/2000, Malcolm Boekhoff wrote:
>I wonder if this has anything to do with my problem of "tar xvzf
>/d/zip/pine4.21.tar-2.gz" failing because the files are listed as starting with
>"./" in the archive?  I can unpack, e.g. cdrecord-1.9.tar.gz with no problem -
>they aren't listed as starting with "./".
>
>
> > "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> > >
> > > Looks like a general problem, although I'm not sure exactly where its from.
> > > Try:
> > >
> > > cd /
> > > touch .a
> > >
> > > and you'll see what I mean.  But:
> > >
> > > cd ~
> > > touch /.a
> > >
> > > works fine.  ls -a / works without complaint as well.
> >
> > Yep. Seems to be an error in the path conversion routines. I'm just
> > investigating...
>
>
>
>
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