From: Mat Davis (davisdm@widget)
Date: 10/16/92


From: davisdm@widget (Mat Davis)
Subject: Re: SLS install problems...
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 13:12:12 GMT

Hansruedi Heeb (heeb@watson.ibm.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Oct15.111647.16836@athena.mit.edu> krouth@etcs03.eld.ford.com writes:
: >(2) Some of the uucp files did not install either. I believe
: > there were three of them. The rest installed OK.
: >
:
: The problem here is that these files go into directories under emacs
: and emacs is installed later. The fix is to reinstall 'uucp' once
: you have installed emacs.

I noticed that and was wondering why tar didn't just create the
directories it needed. I know that cpio needs a '-d' before it will
create directories, but I thought tar was supposed to create them.

So is this really a problem with tar, or am I mistaken?

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