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a.e.mossberg
aem at ibiza.cs.miami.edu
Sat Jul 22 04:20:17 AEST 1989
greg at tcnz2.tcnz.co.nz writes:
>On NCR Tower unix, release 20100, the unpack we have unpacks
>linked packed files. I discovered this because I wanted to
>unpack, then compress the man files, some of which are linked.
>Compress isn't this stupid - it doesn't unpack these files.
>Beware - this is going to cause me some headaches.
What do you expect from System V? Geez.
System V only has hard links. If you modify a file, the link is destroyed.
(I'm probably explaining this badly).
When you unpack a file, it becomes a seperate file.
Someone out there probably has written a script or program to handle
this, but it is not a System V bug -- it's a System V "feature".
aem
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