Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!adm!ted@braggvax.arpa From: ted@braggvax.arpa Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Tar broken on 4.3BSD? Message-ID: <10895@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: 18 Dec 87 01:06:56 GMT Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 18 Try this on 4.3BSD: cd /tmp tar cf /dev/rmt8 /usr Get the error: tar: cannot change back?: /tmp//usr: No such file or directory Sun tar and all the other tars I have used have no problem with this, but 4.3 tar seems to handle absolute path names incorrectly. Is this a known bug, with a fix? If not, I'll fix it and post the diffs. Thanks, Ted Nolan ted@braggvax.arpa