usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (03/13/89)
Last week, I had posted an article that I was having a problem unpacking
arc files from simtel20 on my PC. I have solved the problem. Here is
what I was doing:
ftp'ing from a SUN4 to simtel20
using either 'type tenex' or 'quote "type l 8"'
getting the files to the SUN
tar'ing them together
uuencoding them
transferring them to my PC using UUPC
The problem arose from the tar'ing. ON the PC I was untar'ing with
pdtar. Either SUN's tar doesn't put the .arc files into tar archives
properly or pdtar doesn't unpck them properly. I suspect pdtar. In the
past I've had problems creating tar archives on my PC using pdtar to
tar together archives created by pkarc. It would truncate the .arc
files.
Solution: don't tar together .arc files to send to the PC. Instead,
individually transfer them.
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