Aphs.119 net.v7bugs utzoo!duke!phs!dennis Mon Jun 8 18:05:21 1981 Tar bug There is a tar bug in the distributed v7: if you specify "-w" in the arguments, the confirmation prompt is written to stdout. If you happen to specify "-wf -", this causes havoc. The fix is pretty obvious. I haven't addressed the converse problem: that of "-xwf -"... If you trust that stderr is really opened mode 2 (as the distributed init does), a similar fix will work.