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From: vogelke+unix@pobox.com (Karl Vogel)
Subject: Re: GNU Tar and -T option
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>> On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:31:48 -0500, 
>> Jay Hall <jhall@socket.net> said:

J> Has anyone had any luck using the -T option with GNU tar 1.16.1?  I am
J> using the following command line.
J>   /usr/local/gtar/bin/tar -c -T filelist -f - | dd of=/dev/nsa1 obs=128k

   I had no problems using that command line with GNU tar versions 1.14 and
   1.22.  I'd grab the source and upgrade if I were you:
     http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.22.tar.gz

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