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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!)
Message-ID: <6068@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 13 Aug 88 07:55:33 GMT
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In article <2858@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) wrote:

> All this points up a "feature" of tar which I find frustrating:  if I want
> tar to tape-archive a large number of files randomly scattered all over the
> file system (such as for an incremental backup) I'm SOL because tar wants
> to be told either a directory to completely search or file names to archive,
> via the argument list.

Am I the only one to use John Gilmore's tar that was posted a while
back?  It solves all of the problems I've so far (including this one -
his can take files from stdin).  It does need some work to get it
working under SysV, but definitely worthwhile.
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