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- From: gie@charon.er.usgs.gov (Gerald I. Evenden)
- Subject: tar problems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.164004.9850@netnews.whoi.edu>
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- Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 16:40:04 GMT
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- I am having problems with tar files created under Dell SVR4-i2.2 not
- un-tar-ing properly on other systems. More specifically, directories
- in the tar file will *NOT* expand to a directory, but instead get
- created as an executable, zero length file. Some detective work has
- shown that the name field in the SVR4 tar is not suffixed with a "/"
- as in a non-SVR4 tar and mode value also differs. I have also used the
- latest version of GNU's cpio with "-H tar" and get the same results
- as with the SVR4 tar. Foreign tars have always been successfully
- processed by SVR4, but the other direction is a bust.
-
- This seems to be a bug/problem related to issue 2.2 because I do not
- remember having this trouble with issue 2.1 last spring.
-
- It is interesting that GNU cpio and Dell tar tend to agree on format.
-
- Any comments or workarounds would be appreciated.
-
- In the meantime, I'll try cpio which has its own problems with inodes
- greater than 65k---why the inodes are recorded is a mystery.
-
- Thanks.
-