tar under Interactive unix

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <4217 at altos86.Altos.COM> ti at altos86.UUCP (Ti Kan) writes:
>
>tar cv and xv should output the file listing to stderr, not stdout.
>AT&T's Sys V.3 source code is correct, but many 386 UNIX vendors did
>not use AT&T's tar sources.  Rather, they used the Microsoft tar source
>which came from Xenix.  The Microsoft tar has the wrong behavior of
>writing the file listing to stdout.

Being one to nitpick, AT&T's System V.3.x (where x < 2) probably had 
the correctly behaving tar.  However, with the introductin of 3.2 AT&T's
source had the bug.

>On a side note, the V.4 tar source from AT&T appears to be a modified
>version of Microsoft's tar, not AT&T V.3's.  Thus, the aforementioned
>bug is re-introduced into AT&T's own sources!  Ugh.

That's because they brought forward the 3.2 sources to the 4.0 baseline
(at least for some parts of the system).


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