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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> tar -cvf / dev/rfd0a /   (while sitting in / )
> 
> I'm not sure you can open / as a plain file, but,
> I'm not prepared to verify... 8-) .

You can't write on directories at all.  This will fail.

						Jordan