From: fabio@billie.Colorado.EDU (Fabio Somenzi) Subject: Re: b17.1: tar -x *appends* to existing file ?! 19 Dec 1996 18:01:23 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612200124.SAA17514.cygnus.gnu-win32@billie.Colorado.EDU> Original-To: duck@novell.com, gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-Reply-To: Mail from 'The Duck ' dated: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:29:19 -0800 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com ->When I use b17.1 tar to extract a file from an archive, and the file already ->exists, tar will append the existing file with data from the archive, rather ->than overlay it. See below. Does this happen to you too? Yes. It happened with b16 too. You have to be especially careful if you have, say, both makefile and Makefile in the same directory. They are concatenated. Fabio -- Fabio Somenzi | Phone: 303-492-3466 University of Colorado | Fax: 303-492-2758 ECE Dept. | Email: Fabio@Colorado.EDU Boulder CO 80309-0425 | WWW: http://vlsi.colorado.edu/~fabio - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".