On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:29:12AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > I want to thank you for your help. I did find an older version of > gtar - that I believe to be working. Its a 1.13 but I don't see a > more specific version number (from SFW collection). I will replace > as suggested if I have any issues with it.
Whoops. > A test of amdump and amrestore brought a tar ball back from tape, and > expecting that the paths files where all prefixed with long numeric > ids, I don't yet know why... is there something I need to know here ? I think you just ran into the reason why plain vanilla 1.13 is specifically NOT recommended. Look for 1.13.19 or 1.13.25 in the 1.13 series. If you have a compilation environment, they are an easy compile. I can send the source if you can't locate it. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)