ADDING TO TAPE ARCHIVES - AHA1540+2150s

Paul Nash paul at frcs.UUCP
Tue Mar 20 04:02:01 AEST 1990


In article <446 at wattres.UUCP>, steve at wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) writes:
> In article <262 at netdev.Comsys.COM> root at netdev.Comsys.COM (Alex Huppenthal) writes:
> <  How can I add to the end of tar archives ? tar cv, tar cv works, but
> [minor (probably unwarranted; most are) flame against SCO removed]
>  
> You could, of course use "tar rv files files files", and get them added to

If this actually _worked_, the flame would have been unwarranted, BUT
SCO Xenix does not allow updating tape archives (or disk file archives!) -
only floppy disks can be updated. RTFM :-}

The only way to get a single archive in Xenix is to `tar x', add the new 
stuff, and then `tar c' ... NOT NICE!!

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