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From: weimer@garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: More tar help
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Date: 12 Feb 91 21:11:44 GMT
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In article <25945@adm.brl.mil>, P_SECINARO@unhh.unh.edu writes:
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|> Or am I somehow downloading the files incorrectly?  I downloaded the
tar file
|> as ASCII and the compress files as binary onto a VMS system (on which I do
|> have plenty of space) and then transferred them over to my system via
|> Kermit.

tar files also have control characters and cannot be downloaded as ASCII.

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )