Ken Hirsch wrote:

> For reasons unclear to me, when you listfile ,6 into a bytestream file, it
> appears to add a space in front of each file name.

that appears to be a *feature* of listfile.....   (jeff v?  :-)

> Try a variable-record length file.

the type of file (fixed-length, variable, bytestream) doesn't seem to make any
difference -- you always get that leading space.

> By the way, if you are redirecting I/O from the CI command line, you can
> even use temporary files, so without file equations:
>
> listfile ./DSG@,6>filelist
> tar '-cvf tartest - ' <filelist
>
> should work.

well almost.  once i removed the leading space from each line of 'filelist'
(in the above example) -- then tar was perfectly happy and made the correct
tarball.  many thanks! :-)         - d

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