From: Bernd Meyer (root@umibox.hanse.de)
Date: 12/09/92


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