<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">John,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks very much for this information. I’m going to file this under</div><div class="">“anomaly” and hope we get no more reports!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dick Koch</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 1, 2015, at 10:32 AM, John Burt <<a href="mailto:burt@brandeis.edu" class="">burt@brandeis.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I do have the symbolic link to bsdtar. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Unfortunately, I got impatient and downloaded MacTeX from TUG, which installed OK on my brand new iMac, so it doesn't make sense to install it again from the dvd. But just to satisfy curiosity, I used the DVD to update TeX on my MacBook Pro, and it seems to be installing flawlessly right out of the box.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The computer the dvd failed on (but the downloaded version did not) was an absolutely brand new iMac, running Yosemite.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">John</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Herbert Schulz <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" target="_blank" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> On Sep 1, 2015, at 12:07 PM, John Burt <<a href="mailto:burt@brandeis.edu" class="">burt@brandeis.edu</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Dear Herb,<br class="">
> Thanks! here's the result<br class="">
> Last login: Tue Sep  1 12:21:09 on ttys000<br class="">
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> [C07H5099DJD2:~] burt% bash<br class="">
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> bash-3.2$ echo $PATH<br class="">
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> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin<br class="">
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> bash-3.2$ which tar<br class="">
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> /sw/bin/tar<br class="">
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> bash-3.2$ bash<br class="">
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> bash-3.2$ echo $PATH<br class="">
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> /sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin<br class="">
><br class="">
> bash-3.2$ which tar<br class="">
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> /sw/bin/tar<br class="">
><br class="">
> bash-3.2$<br class="">
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</span>Howdy,<br class="">
<br class="">
Sigh... do you already have tar in /usr/bin? See if it's found with<br class="">
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ls -alF /usr/bin/tar<br class="">
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(it should be a symbolic link to bsdtar).<br class="">
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If you don't have that command let us know. If you do have the command please add the line<br class="">
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export $PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH<br class="">
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just after the<br class="">
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bash<br class="">
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command and before the<br class="">
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umask<br class="">
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command and see if that helps.<br class="">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br class="">
Good Luck,<br class="">
<br class="">
Herb Schulz<br class="">
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br class="">
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