Problems with tar-1.13

[kurt.wall@timesys.com]

Typing furiously on March 05, Bill Campbell managed to emit:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 03:34:59PM -0500, kurt.wall at timesys.com wrote:
> >
> >It works here on my tar:
> >
> >$ tar --version
> >tar-1.13.19
> 
> What distribution?  Can you point to SRPMS so I can compare with
> the Caldera versions?  I have a RedHat 7.1 system here reporting
> that size, but the Source CD doesn't have SRPMS for tar-1.13.19-4.

Red Hat 7.2.
$ rpm -q tar
tar-1.13.19-6

> It isn't the tape drive.  I've looked at the source enough to see
> that this is in the basic getopts processing, long before it even
> looks at the tape.  It fails without looking at the ``-b'' option
> so specify block size.

Ah. Well, I haven't looked at the source code. No time.

Kurt
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