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  1. Xref: sparky comp.unix.sysv386:16587 comp.unix.sys5.r4:538
  2. Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.sys5.r4
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnews!adh
  4. From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
  5. Subject: Re: tar problems
  6. Organization: AT&T
  7. Distribution: na
  8. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:50:47 GMT
  9. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145047.16959@cbnews.cb.att.com>
  10. References: <1992Nov12.164004.9850@netnews.whoi.edu> <1992Nov17.125259.1778@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
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  13. In article <1992Nov17.125259.1778@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM> Bo.Muldbak@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM writes:
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  15. "    SVR4    ->    BSD    Problem, since SVR4 archives has directories
  16. "                and are not using the silly '/' suffix.
  17. "                Instead we are using the tar filetype field.
  18.  
  19. it just occurred to me --
  20. if you're using find to generate the pathnames to tar, you can add the
  21. -type f option to eliminate directories [i think...].
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  25. Andrew Hay    |    I am not an expert,                       |
  26. a_d_hay@att.com    |             but I play one on the Internet!       |
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