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From: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se (Gunnar Dahlstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: archiving under MSDOS and UNIX
Keywords: arichive, Unix, MSDOS
Message-ID: <1990Dec23.100550.8102@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se>
Date: 23 Dec 90 10:05:50 GMT
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In article <1990Dec22.184424.3313@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> reich@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes:
>In article <1990Dec20.203302.5232@afs-news.utc.chalmers.se> dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se () writes:
>>Why not use COMPRESS/UNCOMPRESS and TAR together, i have both of those program for MS-DOS and UNIX.
>>
>This question is slightly off the beaten path, but will TAR work on compiled
>binaries.  I have TAR, but I have only used it on text files.  What about 
>shell archives, will they handle binaries?
>
>I suppose if worse became worst, one could uuencode the binary file, and then
>TAR it.

TAR takes all files, binaries and text and other (?) files. So you dont need to uudecode yours binaries :-))


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				Gunnar Dahlstrom
			Chalmers University of Technology
			    Div. Building Technology
			   412 96 Gothenbourg, Sveden
			E-Mail: dahlstr@hus.chalmers.se
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