tar fix

John Collins jmc at root44.UUCP
Thu Sep 15 19:09:40 AEST 1983


Personally (running Sys III slowly progressing to V as I get the time), I
changed 'tar' to omit the 'chown' unless the extra letter 'o' is specified.
It is then possible to bring up the original ownership etc if required by
the superuser.

Yes I do know about 'cpio' - but it isn't as portable between different kinds
of hardware.

Another fix I find useful is to optionally bypass checksum errors at the user's
own risk.  He is asked in each case whether he wants to continue.

		John Collins
		Root Computers Ltd
			...!vax135!ukc!root44!jmc



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