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From: damour@sol.ral.rpi.edu (Kevin Damour)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: MacOS --> A/UX
Message-ID: <{HZ%$*|@rpi.edu>
Date: 16 Oct 90 16:47:51 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.232652.5575@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - CIRSSE, Troy, NY
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In-Reply-To: brian@fog.ann-arbor.mi.us's message of 15 Oct 90 23:26:52 GMT

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