tar under Interactive unix

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <1990Oct9.193338.6173 at actrix.co.nz> paul at actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:
>In article <3494 at skye.ed.ac.uk> richard at aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) writes:
>> Can it really be that under Interactive "tar cv" writes the names of the
>> files to standard output, so that "tar cvf -" produces a corrupted file?
>
>I have used tar pipes many times, and never had any corruption
>problems under ISC 2.02 386/ix.  Sure, names do go to stdout, as
>part of the archive -- the verbose list goes to stderr.

If the tar file is small enough, the corruption is at the end and 
tar silently ignores it.  However, if you have a big enough tar 
file (somewhere around 100K or so from a few tests that I have run) the
extra data will cause you to get a directory checksum error.

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