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Subject: Re: tar hangs 2.2.x system
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At 10:34 PM 6/17/97 +0200, J Wunsch wrote:
>> Perhaps true, but in the commercial world you cant instantaneously
>> change all of your documents and procedures to fix something that
>> has worked since the beginning of time. They both SHOULD work, and
>> changing a basic procedure is quite painful.
>
>Sure, they should work.  However, every system except Linux has raw
>devices, and they _always_ have been the first choice for such work.
>Don't blame us if you started with the wrong way (for whatever
>reason).  You wouldn't suffer from the bug now otherwise.

I blame you for everything...its just my nature. :-)

Dennis