Problem with A/UX 2.0's tar and symbolic links.

[Tasuki Hirata]

In article <pak.656085892 at request>, pak at regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Peter A. Krauss) writes:
> chn at lanl.gov (Charles Neil) writes:
> 
> >Has anyone else run into this problem?  My configuration
> >is A/UX 2.0 on a IIfx.  If I have a directory which contains,
> >among all of its subdirectories, a total of more than 27 
> >symbolic links, then tar will dump core when it encounters the
> >28th link during the course of archiving the directory.
> 
> Same problem with A/UX 2.0 on a IIx machine...
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> | Peter A. Krauss  (pak at regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de) |
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A simple fix is to grab gnu-tar and compile it.
It even has rmt support...

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