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From: mwills@zephyr.ess.harris.com (M. Scott Wills)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD Amiga
Date: 15 May 1995 13:27:44 GMT
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In-reply-to: mwills@zephyr.ess.harris.com's message of 12 May 1995 22:07:30 GMT
>>>>> "I" == M Scott Wills <mwills@zephyr.ess.harris.com> writes:
I> Should I be concerned that the base10.?? binary distibution
I> files won't untar properly on my SparcStation using the tar
I> that comes with SunOS 4.1.1? All of the directories in the
I> archive come out as regular files and thus none of the
I> subdirs/files within those top level directories (e.g. /bin)
I> can be created, since /bin, /etc, /usr are all regular files.
I> This is not true of the man10.?? and etc10.?? archives, since
I> they do not explicitly contain any of the subdirectories.
I> Perhaps gnutar doesn't behave this way when extracting these
I> "files"?
I> (cc: Direct Email Response appreciated) Scott --
I> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
I> M. Scott Wills, mwills@harris.com, Voice: 407-729-3283, Fax:
I> 407-729-7459
Thanks for all the responses. Apparently gnutar (which comes with
netbsd) includes more info in the tar files than SunOS tar. Thus
SunOS tar gets confused when extracting things from a gnutar (gtar)
archive. Everything extracts fine with the netbsd provided "Extract"
shell script.
BTW: NetBSD is an excellent piece of work, and installs easily on my
A3000. Smatterings of one weekend invested, and I now have X11R6,
Mosaic, a color X11R6 display server, and plenty of other stuff to
add. Good work!
Scott
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