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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
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Subject: Re: tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!)
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Date: 12 Aug 88 18:26:32 GMT
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If anybody is interested, I've got kicking around a public domain version of
TAR that takes the CPIO user interface, that is, the list of file names is
provided on the standard input.  While I was writing this, I noticed that
while every version of the TAR manual page that I've come accross describes
the format calls for zero-filling the fields, every implementation I've
seen actually space fills them (as if they had done it with Printf("%12d")).

Fortunately, every one is liberal in reading the archives (scanf doesn't care).

-Ron