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From: vladimir@Eng.Sun.COM (Vladimir G. Ivanovic)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Writing a MacMinix file to a Mac disk
Message-ID: <VLADIMIR.91Mar24133354@prosper.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 24 Mar 91 21:33:54 GMT
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I made a tar file of /usr/src/tools which I have NOT been able to transfer
successfully from MacMinix to my Mac.  The tar file is about 150K in size, but
the Mac file ends up being only 2704 bytes.  All the other tars of the
/usr/src hierachy have been transferred successfully using a command like

	% macwrite tarfilename <tarfilename

which copies the tar file to a MacOS file in the Minix boot folder.  I tried
compressing `tools.tar' (using a much slimmed down 16bcompress) and then
transferring, but still only a fraction of the expected size.

It's not the name `tools.tar', and I know the tar file is good because I
untarred it in another directory and all the files I checked summed exactly
the same.  But, when I tried transferring individually one of the files in the
tools subdirectory, macboot.ack, a ~75K file, I write only 122 bytes to the
Mac folder.  Voila!  The problem.

Why?

BTW, macboot.ack and init.ack are the only two *.ack files in the /usr/src
hierarchy.

-- Vladimir
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