jxp@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito) (02/19/91)
Maybe it's just me, but I can't get a Unix file which has been tared and compressed to be expanded on the PC. After transferring down to the PC (using binary mode in Kermit), the compressed file will uncompress (usually!). However, tar starts complaining about the resulting file not looking like a tar archive and hangs the PC. What am I doing wrong? I'm using the tar program written by Mark Colburn (circa Feb 1990) and compress is of similar vintage (can't remember exact source, but I got it from Simtel). Any help would be appreciated. Joe.
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/21/91)
In article <2284@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> jxp@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Joe Petrolito) writes: | Maybe it's just me, but I can't get a Unix file which has been tared | and compressed to be expanded on the PC. I will stop posting those files immediately. This is not about anything which has been or might be posted to c.b.i.p! Please do not post replies, and if you must communicate with the original poster, please mention that this is the wrong group. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me