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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
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Subject: Re: tar frustration
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Date: 20 Aug 88 04:39:24 GMT
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In article <2858@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
> All this points up a "feature" of tar which I find frustrating:
> [...can't take random filenames except in argument list...].  "cpio"
> circumvents this problem, since I can feed it a list of files, but
> what if I don't WANT to use cpio?

You use a tar that can take filenames from stdin.  Mine can.  I think
Gilmore's can.  (Mine also treats absolute pathnames on the tape
specially, and has other frills.)

					der Mouse

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