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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: Quantum hardware errors (Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:87,0) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jun 95 18:03:14 +1000."
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 1995 01:42:51 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> I hoped to fix tar, cpio and pax to at least complain about the
> truncation.  How about skipping special files that can't be stored
> without loss?

That would certainly be better than nothing!  Right now it's just
a hidden bomb.

				Jordan