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From: owens%unix1.j6.eucom.mil@vm1.nodak.edu (Kerry F. Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: FTP Binary in Bitnet not correct?
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Date: 17 Jan 91 10:28:05 GMT
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A posting from Carsten Beuthel writes:

> I received  a file ( bcc.tar.Z from plains.nodak.edu ) in binary
> format. I pushed it to Dos from the IBM mainframe and then the
> problem  occured. Uncompressing to bcc ( not bcc.tar ) worked
> but untar it with tar xvf said Header checksum error and stopped.

> Had anybody the same problem and a solution for it?
> Carsten Beuthel ( SOCB@DCZTU1.Bitnet )

I have the same problem but with a different twist, and have not found
a solution.

I do the following:

Get the file on my home UNIX and create smaller tar'd sections to move
to DOS and then to MINIX.

Depending on where in the directory structure I make the new tar file
some times it will untar on MINIX other times it will NOT.

I have taken the route of KERMITing the files to DOS and then copying
them to a diskette to transfer to MINIX.  I then use the dosread command to
copy the files in to MINIX.

Yes I have moved ALL of the files for the 1.2 -1.3 upgrade this way.
To make it simpler I use the following script to build a file called "it".

for i in *
do
echo "dosread 0 $i >$i"
done

the file "it" is also KERMITed to DOS and copied to diskette.

On the MINIX side I use the following command to copy ALL the files to
minix.

dosread 0 it|sh

I will continue to use this untill I can finish the project of upgrading to
MINIX 1.3.
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Kerry F Owens
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