Tar(1) portability???

[Fred Fish]

In article <3144 at sun.uucp> guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>> (3) System V 'tar' doesn't like the directory header info that BSD tar puts
>> on it.  You must use the '-o' flag in BSD tar to suppress this.
>
>It may not like it, but it will tolerate it; it just prints error messages
>and continues when it sees the directory header info.
>

Perhaps this is true of most system V's, but have you tried it on a
PDP-11 under System V Release 0?  It made a directory with some VERY
interesting filenames, the first (and last) time I tried it.

-Fred