> id
uid=9103(xxx) gid=906(xxx)
> uname -a
SunOS lupus 5.7 Generic_106541-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2
> ls -ln
drwxrwxr-x   5 501      906           264 Jun 28 20:55 ./
drwx--x--x  40 501      201          3928 Jun 28 19:07 ../
drwxr-xr-x  14 9103     906           888 Mar 22 05:40 teTeX/
> tar -cf xxxx teTeX
tar: A parent directory cannot be read: Permission denied
Exit 1

What a piece of rubbish. I prefer Linux, the text utilities at least
get the jobs done...

Oh yes, "gnutar -cf xxxx teTeX" works just fine.

Volker

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