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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: FTP Binary in Bitnet not correct?
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.150133.8285@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 18 Jan 91 15:01:33 GMT
References: <41963@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Dakota State University
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In <41963@nigel.ee.udel.edu> owens%unix1.j6.eucom.mil@vm1.nodak.edu (Kerry F. Owens) writes:

>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 )

You need to transfer the file from your IBM mainframe to the PC using
a straight binary transfer, or the file transfer program will usually
think it should translate EBCDIC to ASCII, which will render your binary
file worthless.  It seems like that is what may have happened.
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