b17.1: tar -x *appends* to existing file ?!

Geoffrey Noer noer@cygnus.com
Tue Apr 22 11:53:00 GMT 1997

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> ->When I use b17.1 tar to extract a file from an archive, and the file
> ->already exists, tar will append the existing file with data from the
> ->archive, rather than overlay it. See below. Does this happen to you too?

I've verified that this is fixed in upcoming beta 18.
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Geoffrey Noer
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