Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: minyard@pollux.cs.uga.edu (james minyard)
Subject: Re: Hopes for 3.3.11
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: 20 Nov 1995 16:58:29 GMT
Message-ID: <48qc3l$an4@hobbes.cc.uga.edu>

Jeffrey Martin (jmartin@tractor.cs.uiowa.edu) wrote:
: 1) The damn tar extracted to "pvm3", not "pvm3.3.10", thus extracting
: across a symlink I had made (for simplicity) to the current pvm (3.3.9
: at that time), thus mumbling the files together. Ack. Please always
: stick to the full name for the archives.

i think it would be better practice to actually look at a tar file before 
untarring it in case it looks like it has something that you don't want.  
try :          tar -tf <filename>

it even more annoying when a tar file doesn't make a subdir and you have 
to clean up after it!  (don't ask me why i started believing in looking 
at tar files before extracting them... ;)

-james

           -- james minyard  ---  minyard@cs.uga.edu --
       <a href="http://www.chugalug.uga.edu/~james/">:)</a>

