Jon,

Think I found a good kit for 1.15.1, which seems to be on the
"good" list at amanda.org.

Unless you advise otherwise I will try to build using that version.

                                                thank you,

                                                Brian

On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 11:22:20AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:29:12AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> > 
> > I want to thank you for your help. I did find an older version of
> > gtar - that I believe to be working. Its a 1.13 but I don't see a
> > more specific version number (from SFW collection). I will replace
> > as suggested if I have any issues with it.
> 
> Whoops.
> 
> > A test of amdump and amrestore brought a tar ball back from tape, and
> > expecting that the paths files where all prefixed with long numeric
> > ids, I don't yet know why... is there something I need to know here ?
> 
> I think you just ran into the reason why plain vanilla 1.13 is
> specifically NOT recommended.  Look for 1.13.19 or 1.13.25 in
> the 1.13 series.  If you have a compilation environment, they are
> an easy compile.  I can send the source if you can't locate it.
> 
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