Thanks a bunch. The solution is to install patch 101327-06.
Thanks to:
Zdzislaw Meglicki <Zdzislaw.Meglicki@cisr.anu.edu.au>
glenn@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
hendefd@mail.auburn.edu (Frank Henderson)
Dotty
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>
>Gods:
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>I made a tar file with the Solaris 2.3 tar and then extracted the tar file
>with an exclude file containing two entries:
> a file to be excluded
> a directory to be excluded (that contained files)
>
>The results were that the file was excluded but the dir wasn't. I then used
>this same tar file and ran the same commnad on it with SunOS 4.1.3 and
>it behaved correctly.
>
>Included is the exclude file, the output of the two tar commands and the
>table of contents of the tar file I was using.
>
>Have any of you had similar problems? Thanks for all your help and
>I'll post a summary of replies.
>
>Thanks
>
>Dotty
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>encl.
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>Exclude file:
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>./enx_start
>./dir
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>Solaris 2.3 output:
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>tar xvpfX ../tar_file exclude
>x ./, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
>x ./enx_autoroute, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
>./enx_start excluded
>x ./enx_start_csh, 5680 bytes, 12 tape blocks
>x ./mess.log, 129760 bytes, 254 tape blocks
>./dir/ excluded
>x ./dir/enx_autoroute, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
>x ./dir/enx_start, 4302 bytes, 9 tape blocks
>x ./dir/enx_start_csh, 5680 bytes, 12 tape blocks
>x ./dir/mess.log, 129760 bytes, 254 tape blocks
>
>SunOS 4.1.3 output:
>
>tar xvpfX ../tar_file exclude
>x ./enx_autoroute, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
>./enx_start excluded
>x ./enx_start_csh, 5680 bytes, 12 tape blocks
>x ./mess.log, 129760 bytes, 254 tape blocks
>./dir/ excluded
>./dir/enx_autoroute excluded
>./dir/enx_start excluded
>./dir/enx_start_csh excluded
>./dir/mess.log excluded
>
>
>Table of contents of tar file:
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>tar tvf tar_file
>drwxrwx---143/102 0 Jun 15 11:14 1994 ./
>-rw-rw----143/102 0 Jun 7 16:08 1994 ./enx_autoroute
>-rwxr-x---143/102 4302 Jun 7 16:08 1994 ./enx_start
>-rwxr-x---143/102 5680 Jun 7 16:08 1994 ./enx_start_csh
>-rw-r--r--143/102 129760 Jun 7 16:08 1994 ./mess.log
>drwxrwx---143/102 0 Jun 15 11:14 1994 ./dir/
>-rw-rw----143/102 0 Jun 15 11:14 1994 ./dir/enx_autoroute
>-rwxr-x---143/102 4302 Jun 15 11:14 1994 ./dir/enx_start
>-rwxr-x---143/102 5680 Jun 15 11:14 1994 ./dir/enx_start_csh
>-rw-r--r--143/102 129760 Jun 15 11:14 1994 ./dir/mess.log
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