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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: pax/tar on IBM-PC Systems
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Date: 25 Sep 90 21:08:36 GMT
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In article <6352@hub.ucsb.edu> 6600kjp@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Kevin Phillips) writes:
>I have tried, several times, to use the pax/tar utility
>on tar files I have downloaded to my PC from my Unix
>account.  In every case, PAX/TAR would only un-tar the
>first file and would give an error message and quit
>after that.  Has anyone else had this problem and figured
>out a work-around?  (I've tried, but no haven't had any
>luck yet)

The PAX utilities work just fine for me.  Perhaps something is wrong
elsewhere in the chain?  Most problems seem to be with downloading.
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