tar under Interactive unix

[Paul Gillingwater]

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.
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Paul Gillingwater, paul at actrix.co.nz