tar under Interactive unix

[Karl-P. Huestegge]

In <4217 at altos86.Altos.COM> ti at altos86.Altos.COM (Ti Kan) writes:

>>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?
>>
>>>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).

>[...] came from Xenix.  The Microsoft tar has the wrong behavior of
>writing the file listing to stdout.

>For the record, all current Altos UNIX (not Xenix) releases for all its
>systems has the correct tar behavior.

None of The 286 and 386 SCO Xenix Versions I used (2.1 to 2.3.2) had
this behavior. All tar's work correct and output the verbose options
to stderr.

Karl-Peter Huestegge                       karl at robot.in-berlin.de
Berlin Friedenau                           ..fub!utopia!robot!karl