Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!utrcu1!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer From: klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte -- Universiteit Twente) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: FTP Binary in Bitnet not correct? Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 91 08:15:10 GMT References: <42075@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <103@ledgepc.uucp> Sender: news@utrcu1.UUCP Lines: 24 wayne@ledgepc.uucp (Wayne Brown) writes: >> stuff deleted << >I think you may have run into a peculiartity of Minix tar. Try this: Description of minix-tar failing to extract files when the parent directories do not exist. >The result will be tar: Header checksum error. I admit, this is not the nicest error i can think of. The behaviour as minix tar has is as i interpreted POSIX 1003.1. When the minix community (that's you!) wants the unix behaviour (i.e. making parent directories of files to be extracted when not existing) i will fix this. Please mail votes to klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl Klamer -- Klamer Schutte Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamer