Re: Re: Hi!

[Neal H Walfield]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:11:35AM +0200, Tomasz {Funto} W?jcik wrote:
> Hi,
> please run
> tar cfp dev.tar /dev
> gzip -9 dev.tar
> 
> send me dev.tar.gz

This will fail miserably;  Tar does not support storing translator
information in an archive.

By default, only a minimum number of translators are created in /dev.
Normally, one uses MAKEDEV to create the other devices.

Again, you have a few options, fix tar (this should not be hard,
however, I have not yet done it) or you tell us what you are trying to
do and we can try to help.  

-Neal

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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu