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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: FTP Binary in Bitnet not correct?
Message-ID: <548@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 24 Jan 91 21:41:12 GMT
References: <103@ledgepc.uucp>
Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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In article <103@ledgepc.uucp>, wayne@ledgepc.uucp (Wayne Brown) wrote:
> 
> I think you may have run into a peculiartity of Minix tar.  Try this:
> 
(some tests deleted)
> 
> The result will be   tar: Header checksum error.
> 
> However, if you mkdir junk, then try to untar, the files will be restored
> to the junk directory.  UNIX tar would have created the junk directory for
> you, just as in step #2 above.  In fact, if you create a tar file under UNIX
> using either method #2 or #3, it will not untar on Minix unless the proper
> directories already exist.  The solution is to either tar the files on the
> UNIX system using method #1, or else to create any directories needed before
> attempting to untar under Minix.
Or use the "pdtar" program written by John Gilmore.  I have used it ever
since MINIX 1.2, and it works great.  Devices, links (also symbolic links)
, sUID, sGID, compressed archives, remote archives, you name it.  There
has not been even one TAR file that it was unable to unpack, and, believe
me, I get a LOT of strange TAR files over here..... :-)

Fred.