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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: tar problem
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:23:58 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan CITI
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- References: <C0JLu0.1np@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <C0JLu0.1np@unx.sas.com>, sasdzr@borel.unx.sas.com (David F. Ross) writes:
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- When untar'ing (tar xvf) a tar file created on another host (sun),
- midway through the process it stops and prints a message telling me
- to "mount the volume and then hit return".
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- Apollo tar has always been notoriously bad. I recommend either John
- Gilmore's free tar or gnu tar. You can get a version of Gilmore's tar,
- modified for use with Domain/OS, from archive.umich.edu.
-