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Re: b17.1: tar -x *appends* to existing file ?!
- To: fabio at billie dot Colorado dot EDU (Fabio Somenzi)
- Subject: Re: b17.1: tar -x *appends* to existing file ?!
- From: Geoffrey Noer <noer at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:50:19 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: duck at novell dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
> ->When I use b17.1 tar to extract a file from an archive, and the file
> ->already exists, tar will append the existing file with data from the
> ->archive, rather than overlay it. See below. Does this happen to you too?
I've verified that this is fixed in upcoming beta 18.
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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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