On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:18:25PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> > cd: can't cd to /m5/netbsd-1.6/src/tools/toolchain/obj.i386/build/gcc/include
> 
> I don't know about that part....
> 
> > tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.
> 
> But for this I bet the second tar's option flags need a leading '-':
> 
> 	tar -xpBf -
> 
> which is more or less confirmed by your success with the 1.5
> binary.

Nope, the return code of pax-as-tar is what causes this because the
input is empty (gnutar apparently does not treat this as an error).

pax-as-tar of course accepts options without the hyphen.

g.