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- From: boyle@gca.COM (David Boyle)
- Subject: GNU tar
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.181814.9565@gca.com>
- Keywords: GNU tar
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: GCA Corporation
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 18:18:14 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- Using GNU tar version 1.10 on a DECstation/Ultrix machine, tar +help
- claims that -c will "create a new archive". However, if I write the same
- archive twice (to tape), the second time goes much faster, as if tar was
- checking the existing archive against what is being written an only updating
- rather than creating the archive from scratch. This behavior is what I
- would expect from the -u flag, not -the -c flag.
-
- Is what I described actually happening or am I out to lunch? If I'm
- right, how can I force the archive to be created from scratch?
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