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Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 20:04:34 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: WARNING! New GNU Tar in 5-CURRENT could erroneously create world 
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Dan Nelson wrote:
> Tar 1.13 is 3 years old, and has many bugs (incremental backups are
> unusable, for example).

On the flip side, I hear it respects the umask when running as root...

-- Terry

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