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- From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
- Subject: Re: DOS FS deleting large files?
- Message-ID: <trussell.714288532@cwis>
- Keywords: dos
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 05:28:52 GMT
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- Thanks to Theodore T'so for confirming my semi-suspicion that zcat/compress
- was the problem. Apparently some (older?) versions treat ^C as an error
- condition and delete their input.
-
- He says if you're not sure about the version, a good safe method is to
- use "zcat < foo.Z | tar" rather than "zcat foo.Z | tar" so zcat can't delete
- the file even if it tries.
-
- --
- Tim Russell Omaha, NE trussell@unomaha.edu
- One of the richest men in the world made his billions selling a toy "operating
- system" that is more accurately described as a glorified bootstrap loader.
- -- Phil Karn
-