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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Help transferring file hierarchy UNIX --> Mac
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Date: 13 Dec 89 19:07:25 GMT
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In article <3623@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan 
Barrett) writes:
> the Mac??  Or maybe "tar" and "compress" for the Mac?  Or ANY
> packing-compressing program for the Mac that also runs under UNIX?

There are versions of tar and compress that run on the Mac.  I've been 
able to sucessfully unpack a tar archive on the Mac, but I wasn't able to 
uncompress the file as well.  So I end up uncompressing on the VAX and 
running tar on the Mac.

The only problems occure when the tar archive contains 2 files in the same 
directory that differ only in capitalization.  Then program refuses to 
extract the second file because of a name conflict.  You also get errors 
if there are links between files, and the error reporting isn't very good.

But overall, the process has been very sucessful for me.  Both programs 
should be available on Info-Mac.

Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc.
Object Specialist

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