Re: tlug: Cross-device link error

[Scott Perlman <perlman@example.com>]

Scott Stone did state upon Thu, Jul 30, 1998 at 02:10:11PM +0900:
> only problem is tar doesn't handle special files like /dev entries, so tar
> isn't always suitable.

Nope, but I'm rarely moving character or block special files.  (or
named pipes for that matter)

Thanks for the forgotten caveat!

-Scott

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