brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us (Brian S. Schang) (10/16/90)
I'm having a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I have a compressed and tarred file on a MacOS floppy. I want to get it over to A/UX to uncompress and untar it. But, whenever I copy the file to an A/UX volume using the A/UX Finder, it seems to be corrupted along the way. I am assuming that it is happening in the transition between MacOS and A/UX because even if I download the file directly from a Unix host using a MacOS terminal program and put the file on a A/UX disk, the same happens. Text files appear to work OK, but I only tested it with much shorter text files. Do I have to do something special to get the binary copy to work? Am I doing something wrong? Am I omitting something important? I was looking forward to this for a while. It sure is faster to use a file server to copy the files to a floppy and then copy them to A/UX. Any suggestions? -- Brian S. Schang N8FOG brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us 46131 Academy Drive schang@caen.engin.umich.edu Plymouth, MI 48170-3519
mss+@andrew.cmu.edu (Mark Sherman) (10/16/90)
Look at my previous msgs on this newsgroup and the responses. Exactly
my problem. I'll bet your FTP program (MacIP? NCSA Telnet?) is marking
the downloaded files as TEXT and thus they are having their new lines
converted when you move them onto AUX.
However, I am still looking for comments about my hanging TextEditor.
I have now had to reboot my system 4 times today (look at the
message header!). If I can`t trust my text editor to work, I have to
throw it away. As best I can tell, the editor will hang Unix on a random save.
So far, I have not had it hang on a Save As, and I am using that as a work
around until that too starts to fail.
-Markdamour@sol.ral.rpi.edu (Kevin Damour) (10/16/90)
I had the same problems until I used od -h on each file and saw that a header was attached. To get around this problem I download my tar files with type ???? and creator ???? (to avoid any newline character switches) and then strip the header off (it is a constant number of bytes with these files so just write a small program to fseek past the header and copy the rest of the bytes to a file). This works fine although changing file type may be viewed as evil. Kevin Damour damour@ral.rpi.edu
brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us (Brian S. Schang) (10/18/90)
Thanks to all who responded, I got things working. Just changing the file type to something other than TEXT did the trick. Changing it to A/UX caused the data fork to be seperated when copying. Thanks again! -- Brian S. Schang N8FOG brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us 46131 Academy Drive schang@caen.engin.umich.edu Plymouth, MI 48170-3519