From: Dan Warburton (warb@faatcrl)
Date: 12/13/92


From: warb@faatcrl (Dan Warburton)
Subject: Re: Simple SCSI tar file question
Date: 14 Dec 1992 02:23:22 GMT

root@umibox.hanse.de (Bernd Meyer) writes:

>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.

>Looks like dist is an existing file, so a directory can't be created.

>>mars{warb}-> ls
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ only fscsi-a07.tar is in the directory
>>fscsi-a07.tar
>>mars{warb}-> tar -xvf fscsi-a07.tar
>>x dist, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is there a dist FILE on the tar messing things up?

>>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

>Bernie

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