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- From: frandsen@spac11.fzo.dec.com (John R.Frandsen)
- Subject: Re: Cant uncompress .tar.Z files downloaded to VMS nodes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.151732.11696@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Dec17.081552.46@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:17:32 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Dec17.081552.46@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com> krajnakm@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com writes:
- >BACKGROUND:
- >
- >We don't have direct access to the internet for our Ultrix machines (yet) so
- >I have to do the follwing when ftping files:
- >
- >Log into our remote gateway, a VMS node.
- >
- >Use UCX$FTP/ULTRIX to connect to remote machines, usually unix boxes.
- >
- >Set mode to BINARY and get the files (*.tar.Z and *.gif files), e.g.:
- >
- > ftp> set mode bin
- > ftp> get somefile.tar.Z somefile_tar.z # remember the destination is
- > # a VMS node.
- >
- >Do a VMS to VMS copy to our local VMS node:
- >
- > $ copy somefile_tar.z mynode"user passwd"::disk:[dir]
- >
- >Use dcp to copy the files to the local Ultrix node (a DECstation 5000/200
- >running Ultrix 4.2A):
- >
- > % dcp mynode/user/passwd::'disk:[dir]somefile_tar.z' ./somefile.tar.Z
- >
- >THE PROBLEM:
- >
- >uncompress gives a "corrupted file" error when I attempt to go from a .tar.Z
- >to a .tar file:
- >
- > % uncompress somefile.tar.Z
- > uncompress: corrupt input
- >
- >A possibly related problem is that downloaded GIF files won't work with the
- >motifgif application, the error is "not in gif format".
- >
- >Direct mail preferred
- >
-
- try "dcp -i ..."
-
- John
-