CW%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (06/04/91)
Hi again,
Thanks to the people that gave advice to me on using the
Uncompress, Tar etc for the PC that were posted to the board a
while back. The following information may be useful to those
using them.
I find it necessary to include the -i qualifier in the uncompress
command, otherwise 'tar' does not seem able to cope with the
uncompressed file, e.g.
C:>uncompre -i 'filename'
Does anybody know why, since it does notexplain what -i means
anywhere? When I untar the file I use the command line
C:>tar -xf 'filename'
which 'seems' to work. By 'seems' I mean that executables seem
to work and ascii files become ascii files...HOWEVER...The executables
behave a bit oddly (I won't go into this) and the ascii files
are untarred as one very long line with the line feed/carriage returns
subsituted with funny coloured 'J' characters. The text is all intact
but it appears that the control characters are not understood. I have
tried a lot of different qualifiers for both Tar and uncompre but
they either don't work or do work with the above problems...
Any ideas?
Thanks for listening
Conrad