From: fiat_owner AT yahoo DOT com (Jon Byron Davis) Subject: tar (four questions) 4 Feb 1998 15:30:50 -0800 Message-ID: <34D8B0F9.2D6CD3C5.cygnus.gnu-win32@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnuwin32 A few questions about tar: a) I get the following error/warning when I create an archive: (someone asked about this before, but I never saw an answer) root AT DOLORES bash-2.01$tar cvf tmp.tar tmp/ setgrent called, and it's not done yet. Is this a problem? I haven't seen any negative effects, but... b) Has anyone had problems with tar screwing up archives? I don't know if it was tar or gzip (or gunzip for that matter) but every now and then tar xvf fails, complaining that something is wrong with the archive. This has only happened to archives that I have created, not on any that I have downloaded. Is there any chance that running several instances of tar (or gzip) in the background simultaneously could be confusing things? c) I can't seem to get some of the switches for tar to work. For example, -r (--append) and -u (--update) don't seem to work. Am I using them incorrectly, or are some of the switches not yet implemented? d) How is the CR/LF thing handled with tar? I have / mounted as text=binary, but I'd like to be able to use tar to archive some of my Win32 stuff (Excel spreadsheets, mostly). I haven't run into any problems yet, but I'd like to be aware of any potential pitfalls. Thanks for any help/advice you can offer! Byron fiat_owner AT yahoo DOT com -- Jon Byron Davis 617.629.4194 88 Concord Ave. #2 jbdavis AT mit DOT edu Somerville, MA 02143 fiat_owner AT yahoo DOT com "We saw shadows of the morning light -- shadows of the evening sun" - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".