From: Michal Mertl <xmerm05 AT manes DOT vse DOT cz>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Bug in TAR
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 18:30:22 +0100
Organization: Prague University of Economics
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There is a bug in DJGPP port of TAR (1.12).
It states in docs that it fully supports dos absolute pathnames but when I
start it with "tar -cf thefile.tar c:/foo/thefile.txt" in directory c:/foo it
crashes with SIGSEGV.

Michal "MiMe" Mertl
  xmerm05 AT vse DOT cz