jim@ic2020.UUCP (Jim Carter) (05/23/89)
I have been having some problems with compressed binary files with tar.
The problem occures in the following manner.
- Save the file on the default tar device with the command
tar cv file.Z
- Restore the file from same device with command
tar xv
- The default tar device is a 720k 3.5inch floppy.
If file.Z is relatively large, 400k+ there seems to be a problem reading
the past about 250k. Has anyone else ever had this problem. Is it a
problem with tar or with compress ?? The interesting thing is that I can
compress/uncompress all I want until I run it through tar. I guess I could
get a new version of compress, 1985 is pretty old. Up until now I have not
used tar much, but is an anoying problem.
The current version of compress is :
-- Based on compress.c,v 4.0 85/07/30 12:50:00 joe Release
-- Options: XENIX_16, BITS = 16
The current xenix we have is
-- SCO xenix 2.2.2 /386.
Thanks,
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Jim Carter (Sequoia Contact Lens,1355 11th Street,Reedley,CA,93654)
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