[plug] Script not working

[Nick Bannon]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:18:34PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
>   Similarly tar defaults to some weird historical oddity for its output,
> rather than stdout, which is the more normal unix way.

GNU tar doesn't;
	(cd /source && tar c *) | (cd /dest && tar x)
...works fine.

Traditional tar defaults to the tape device, after all, it's the
Tape ARchiver.

Nick.

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