help! tar archive paradox

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Sun Jun 23 06:30:22 AEST 1991


In article <15618 at ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> sutton at lamar.ColoState.EDU (Richard Sutton) writes:
>But what will contain the tar archive that contains all tar archives that do
>not contain themselves? Therein lies the paradox!

I wrote an AI program to search for such an archive, and it created one
but since it's inside a Black Hole that resulted from the creation, I'm
unable to retrieve the solution to share it with you.  Sorry.



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