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- Path: sparky!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!flyer!flatlin!bad
- From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
- Subject: Re: SVR4 tar
- Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 19:50:24 GMT
- Message-ID: <BtpLs0.C2J@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
- References: <1992Aug19.152118.29842@gtech.com> <Bt8qHw.9En@gator.rn.com>
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- In <Bt8qHw.9En@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >there was a bug in tar as distributed in the SVR4 source code -- and
- >Dell was the only vendor to find and fix the bug before shipping --
-
- Bull. There are (at least) two different tar formats in use. They
- differ in how directories get flagged in the archive. The SVR4 source
- used different formats in different versions.
- --
- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
-
- ISO? Nicht immer, aber immer M-vfter.
-