more uses for mode 000 (was: Summary: What SUID, SGID...)

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR]

As quoted from <CLARK.91Feb11181727 at discord.cme.nist.gov> by clark at cme.nist.gov (Steve Clark):
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| In article <CLARK.91Feb11160645 at discord.cme.nist.gov>, I wrote:
| Steve> cd $HOME
| Steve> echo ./subdir/hugedir | tar cX - .
| 
| >>>>> On 11 Feb 91 21:40:54 GMT, jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) said:
| Jonathan>   What version of Unix are you using?  What version of tar?
| 
| Ooops.  I made a mistaken generalization, it seems.  Since Gnu tar
| does the obvious thing with the `-' filename after -X, I assumed SunOS
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Yeah, but what versions of tar have the X option?  Remember that Gnu tar has a
LOT of options that no other tar has.  (Well, standard tar, I ignore
commercial add-ons like LoneTar.)

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