I got what is clearly the definitive answer asap, or sooner
from Kevin Oberman at Berkeley Lab:
>This is a Sun problem. If you have the pax tool, it can read the file
>just fine. It is often aliased to ustar and is in the /usr/5bin
>directory. (I think it's Unix Standard Tape Archive.)
>If you run it as pax, the command line is entirely different. ustar
>uses a command line identical to tar.
>Alternatively, you should be able to manually create the directories,
>but I have not actually tried this. (The X11 distribution has the same
>problem and I just installed X11R6.3 on my Sun.)
Yes,
me_at_my_Sun> /usr/5bin/ustar xf foo.tar
works just fine. Thank you list.
Received on Thu Feb 06 1997 - 23:54:02 NZDT