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- From: ed@invid.mwc.com (Ed Bravo)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: tar with Coherent 4.0.1 Reply
- Message-ID: <9212211104.AA00102@invid.mwc.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 13:26:03 GMT
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- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- >
- > In article <7ia8sB1w164w@darktow.GUN.de> tn@darktow.GUN.de writes:
- >
- > >I've massive problems with tar extracting under Coh 4.0.1.
- > >I got cnews from raven and try to unpack it.
- > >
-
- Also try the command v7tar.
- Ed
- ed@mwc.com
-
- > >tar xf cnews.tar
- > >
- > >Then tar starts and says something like:
- > >
- > >cnews.tar: this doesn't look like a tar archive
- >
- > Sounds like you may be ftp'ing them as ASCII instead of BINARY. I
- > did this (by accident) and got the same thing. When you next ftp
- > to raven, type "binary" at the ftp> prompt before you "get" the
- > archive.
- >
- > Regards,
- >
- > Mike
- > --
- > Mike Zanker | Mail : mike@mallard.demon.co.uk
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- >
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