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- From: destroyer!news.itd.umich.edu!pisa.citi.umich.edu!rees@gatech.edu (Jim Rees)
- Subject: Re: tar problem
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.205342.2834@etl.go.jp>
- Sender: apollo-request@engin.umich.edu
- Organization: University of Michigan CITI
- References: <C0JLu0.1np@unx.sas.com>
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:23:58 GMT
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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.
-