On 7/17/05, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I didn't quite get your bug report. Can you give a specific > example? I just tried this: > > touch foo.c > tar -c foo.c -f foo.tar > tar -tvf foo.tar > > and it worked for me with tar 1.15.1: it created foo.tar with contents > foo.c, and that sounds like it's what you wanted. Here's the output I > got from the last command: > > -rw-r--r-- eggert/eggert 0 2005-07-17 00:39:24 foo.c Maybe this has something to do with it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# touch foo.c [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# tar -c foo.c -f foo.tar tar: -f: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: foo.tar: Cannot stat: No such file or directory foo.c0000644000000000000000000000000010266446426010503 0ustar rootroottar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# I'm pretty sure that the distro-supplied version did the same thing but I can't get it installed right now (slackware packages are bundled with tar, so the chicken is eating the egg). If I need to, can rebuild the box and see what happens. Thanks. -Andy _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
