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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA412 ; Sun, 31 Jan 93 14:06:48 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!usc!enterpoop.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Does anybody have a complete tar.Z file of filesystem? Date: 1 Feb 1993 10:40:39 GMT Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 16 Message-ID: <1kiun7INN22k@life.ai.mit.edu> References: <fYFNcUt@quack.sac.ca.us> <1993Jan31.115936.24290@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org> <fYIR9dY@quack.sac.ca.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: hal.ai.mit.edu 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. -- \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted. Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!