On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 at 6:12pm, Dan Wilder wrote

> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:11:48PM -0800, Adam Haberlach wrote:

> >     Can I get a bit more information?  How do I do this?  I'm about
> > to start backing up from a Solaris machine to a Linux machine, and I'm
> > not sure if the dumps are compatible (and I'd like to be able to dump
> > on a per-directory basis, too).
> 
> It is quite unlikely that the dumps are compatible.
> 
> You may need to install GNU tar.
> 
All I can add to this is that you need a recent version of GNUtar.  
1.13.17 is the minimum, IIRC.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University

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