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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
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- Subject: Re: SVR4 tar
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.145332.3371@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 14:53:32 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.152118.29842@gtech.com>, ayr@gtech.com (Aleksey Y. Romanov) writes:
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- | Hi,
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- | I found some troubles reading on SVR3.2 computer tar archives created
- | on SVR4 machine. It seems to that format is slightly different on the SVR4.
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- Dell fixed this, but I believe on all system cpio has a tar option
- (yes, that /is/ bizarre) which will do what you want. Don't forget to
- check for 16 vs 32 bit inode numbers when writing cpio files, also.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
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