Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:8897 comp.unix.wizards:10588 Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mcgill-vision!mouse From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: tar frustration Message-ID: <1249@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: 20 Aug 88 04:39:24 GMT Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.1249 References: <1670003@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <5762@super.upenn.edu> <2858@ttrdc.UUCP> Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 13 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 old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu