TAR on 3b1
Thaddeus P. Floryan
thad at public.BTR.COM
Thu Jun 27 22:10:39 AEST 1991
In article <136 at morwyn.UUCP> forrie at morwyn.UUCP (Forrie Aldrich) writes:
| I have the development set 3.51 installed... in many messages and so
| forth on the net, I have seen the tar command invoked as:
|
| zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf -
|
| whereby it doesn't require you to uncompress the file first before
| extracting it's contents. Well, after many trials, I cannot seem
| to get the 3b1 tar command to cooperate with this approach, and I
| wonder if anyone out there has a solution to this issue.
| [...]
I use that command form for tar all the time, and it works fine (esp. since
I simply haven't the disk space to unpack some of the mongo compressed tar
files I collect from around the net.
There *IS* a chance you may have some weirdo version, so check your tar
against the following:
$ path tar
/usr/bin/tar
$ ll /usr/bin/tar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 10792 Dec 22 1987 /usr/bin/tar
$ size /usr/bin/tar
7236(.text) + 1576(.data) + 10868(.bss) + 0(.lib) = 19680
$ sum /usr/bin/tar
31709 11 /usr/bin/tar
$ coffdate /usr/bin/tar
Sat Apr 18 17:28:49 1987 /usr/bin/tar
Thad Floryan [ thad at btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
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