tar under Interactive unix

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <3494 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>Can it really be that under Interactive "tar cv" writes the names of the
>files to standard output, so that "tar cvf -" produces a corrupted file?

Yes. (so you have to use tar cf - or tar cvf file to get a good tar file).

>Is this standard System V brain damage?

I believe it is. (Interactive would not be so stupid as to add this 
blunder to the code).

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