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Old 12-28-2010
Bus error while using command tar -cvf

Hi,

I am working on a mac OSX machine. I am getting bus error Smilie when i use the command tar -cvf file1.tar file1
What could be the reason for this??
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Old 12-28-2010
what is the exact error message you are getting?
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