> I'm used to SCO's tar command in which it can't back up special files in
> /dev. Linux's tar command seemed to back them up with no problem. Are my
> eyes telling me the truth?
Probably.
Older versions of tar don't recognize device files as being anything
special and will merrily try to "read" them just like any other file,
leading to disaster (or at least inconvenient failure).
The simplest solution is probably to build GNU tar on your SCO system.
You may also want to check out cpio -- even the non-GNU versions appear to
handle device files correctly.
-- Lars
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