ugh.book

32 Welcome, New User!

% cc -o doit.c doit

instead of:

% cc -o doit doit.c

Needless to say I have lost doit.c

Is there anyway I can get it back? (It has been extensively modified

since this morning).

:-(

Other programs show similar behavior:

From: Daniel Weise <[email protected]>

To: UNIX-HATERS

Date: Thu, 1 July 1993 09:10:50 -0700

Subject: tarred and feathered

So, after several attempts, I finally manage to get this 3.2MB file

ftp’d through a flaky link from Europe. Time to untar it.

I type:

% tar -cf thesis.tar

...and get no response.

Whoops.

Is that a “c” rather than an “x”?

Ye s.

Did tar give an error message because no files were specified?

No.

Did tar even notice a problem?

No.

Did tar really tar up no files at all?

Ye s.

Did tar overwrite the tar file with garbage?

Of course, this is Unix.