From: root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) Subject: Re: Simple SCSI tar file question Date: 10 Dec 1992 02:06:22 GMT
warb@faatcrl (Dan Warburton) writes:
>Excuse my Ignorance but what is going on here?
>It's like the tar file is not making the dirs. as needed.
>This is on a sun system using suns tar.
>mars{warb}-> ls
>fscsi-a07.tar
>mars{warb}-> tar -xvf fscsi-a07.tar
>x dist, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
>tar: can't create dist/README.SCSI: Not a directory
>tar: can't create dist/fscsi.diff: Not a directory
>tar: can't create dist/tape: Not a directory
>tar: dist/tape: Not a directory
Looks like dist is an existing file, so a directory can't be created.
Bernie