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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: More tar help
Message-ID: <15192@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 13 Feb 91 22:31:18 GMT
References: <25945@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <25945@adm.brl.mil> P_SECINARO@unhh.unh.edu writes:
>I downloaded the tar file as ASCII ...

Don't do that!  "tar" files will be corrupted unless you download them
in binary (image) mode.