[hacknews] tar

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (06/26/84)

At long last, the format of tar tapes is documented.  See tar(5).
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henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (05/11/85)

Added Geoff Collyer's robustness fixes to tar(1); this clears up some
cases where inaccessible directories would confuse tar badly.
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