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From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
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Subject: Re: Does anybody have a complete tar.Z file of filesystem?
Date: 1 Feb 1993 10:40:39 GMT
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In article <fYIR9dY@quack.sac.ca.us> dfox@quack.sac.ca.us (David Fox)
writes:
>
> Whether it will restore it is something else, and I haven't tried
> that yet.  But I don't see any reason why it wouldn't.  The statement
> 'Why not? Because it's a special file' or some such doesn't wash.

In fact, it's utter bullshit--at least for GNU tar.  I've done as much
as to tar up an entire system, copy the image to another machine, and
untar it, and it has worked flawlessly.

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