The tar command is very buggy in OSF/1 version 3.0 and later. The solution is
to complain about it to Digital and then install the subset "obsolete
utilities" which gives you a "new old" tar which you can use instead of the
buggy one!
Many thanks to those who responded and a very merry Christmas to you all!
/Mats
My original question:
> Why is it that a tar archive made on a system running DEC OSF/1 V3.0B can't
> be read properly on a machine with SunOS V4.1.3?
>
> The archive contains a directory and five files in it. When the archive
> is read the directory is created as a regular file! The other files can't be
> extracted since the directory is a file...
>
> When the archive is created on a Ultrix system everything works fine!
>
> Why does this happen and what can I do?
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Received on Fri Dec 22 1995 - 16:03:58 NZDT