vance@mtxinu.UUCP (Vance Vaughan) (11/11/84)
4.2 BUGLIST ABSTRACTS from MT XINU, part 9 of 10:
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program or source file and source directory (separated by --),
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talk--local char@ucbkim (Bruce Char) 8 Sep 83
talk bombs out with an illegal instruction if the called party does not
respond. This a period after the "ringing the party again" message is
printed.
REPEAT BY:
talk <anyone logged in>
then have <anyone logged in> not respond
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talk--ucb sun!dg (David Goldberg) 28 Apr 84 +FIX
The Talk(1) command does not work between sun's and vaxes.
REPEAT BY:
Try
talk name@vax-machine
from a sun, or vice-versa.
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talk.1--man jimbo@ucbmonet (Jim Kleckner) 17 Oct 83 +FIX
The text reads:
======================
a user on another host, then person is of the form :
host!user or
host.user or
host:user or
user@host
though host@user is perhaps preferred.
======================
REPEAT BY:
Read manual
FIX:
But should read:
======================
a user on another host, then person is of the form :
host!user or
host.user or
host:user or
user@host
> though user@host is perhaps preferred.
======================
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tar--bin mazama!stew (Stewart Levin) 25 Apr 84
I tried to extract a large tar file residing on one tape and
placing the data directly on another. That is I created a
symbolic link under the name "data1" pointing to /dev/rmt1 (say)
and then did "tar xvBf /dev/rmt5 data1" to extract the data
without the tar header. Unfortunately I ran out of tape because
the output records were written in 512 byte records, wasting
a large amount of space in interrecord gaps.
REPEAT BY:
The above experiment.
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tar--bin mckusick (Kirk Mckusick) 2 Sep 83
When /bin/tar is creating and cant enter a directory,
it may proceed as if the chdir() had been successful,
archiving files from the actual directory as if they
resided in the