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From: dcalabre@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (David Calabrese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Silliest question of the month: "tar" command
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Date: 6 Jan 94 10:31:43 GMT
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It seems that a lot of people use "tar" like a generic file
compressor (or perhaps used to.) I've dug up a "tarred" (and
possibly feathered as well, it's difficult to tell) file, and of
course there's not a Unix manual in sight and of course tar refuses
to read from anything except UCSD's tape drives. (The file is
safely in my account on disk already.)
And OF COURSE the help on our system also assumes that you
want nothing other than to read hundreds of meters of tape and if
someone was unfashionable enough to tar a file on disk that's its
your problem...
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David J. Calabrese
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