On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote: > Don't you need tar --unlink in order to make it delete the old files > instead of overwriting them in place? I know there was a post to > this effect a couple of years ago. NetBSD's tar has '--unlink' by default for a few releases now :) -- David/absolute -- www.netbsd.org: No hype required --