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- Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!etnibsd.UUCP!vsh
- From: vsh@etnibsd.UUCP (Steve Harris)
- Subject: tar-1.11.1
- Message-ID: <9212241630.AA13286@etnibsd.UUCP>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:30:08 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Lines: 65
-
- I just got tar-1.11.1 from uunet. I have been using version 1.10, till
- now. Here is a bug report, a suggestion, and some enhancements I will
- get to next year.
-
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-
- Bug report:
-
- tar -dM -L XXX
-
- reports DATA errors on files that span multiple volumes. Extraction
- works fine, i.e., the extracted file matches exactly.
-
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-
- Suggestion:
-
- Since written documentation is lacking, help message should be
- as useful as possible. I suggest you change it as follows:
-
- tar.c
- 687c687
- < -L, --tape-length LENGTH change tapes after writing LENGTH\n\
- ---
- > -L, --tape-length N change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes\n\
-
-
- (there probably are other changes that could be made, I'm sure
- I'll think of them as soon as I post this email ;-)
-
-
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-
- Future contributions:
-
- Options I will add when I have the time:
-
- --extract-here
-
- extract files into current directory (i.e., strip all
- characters up to and including the final '/' in the filename).
-
- --unlink
-
- silently unlink file before extracting from archive.
-
-
- Here's an idea I haven't worked out completely:
-
- When doing -xv, print the name of each file as it is extracted, but
- delay printing the final newline until the extraction of the file
- is complete. Thus, if I do: "tar -xv foo", and foo is a large file
- in the middle of a long archive, I will know when the extraction is
- complete and I can safely kill the tar process. (Of course, this
- change will require extra work for error messages).
-
-
- If you already have any of these implemented (or plan to), let me know
- and I won't bother.
-
- Happy Xmas!
-
- --
- .. Steve Harris - Eaton Corp. - Beverly, MA - vsh%etnibsd@uunet.uu.net
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