TAR on 3b1

[Forrie Aldrich]

tom at sco.COM (Tom Kelly) writes:

| I have seen the behaviour that Forrie has complained about.  There
| is no message from tar, it just hangs.  (This problem is independent
| of the ownership problem, which is solved with -o as Tom said).
| I don't know if the problem is with the pipe, or tar's handling of
| standard input, but I suspect the pipe.  I have largely switched
| to cpio, and find that it works fine with a pipe.
[ ... ]

Thank you!  Now I know I'm not crazy... ;)

Forrie
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