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From: root@trystro.uucp (Rick Nickle)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: bad tar file for cnews from piggy???
Message-ID: <9104121749.38@trystro.uucp>
Date: 12 Apr 91 22:50:17 GMT
References: <1991Apr10.201003.1638@mcs.anl.gov>
Reply-To: root@trystro.UUCP (Richard Nickle)
Organization: The Trystero System
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In article <1991Apr10.201003.1638@mcs.anl.gov> winans@sirius.mcs.anl.gov (John Winans) writes:
>
>Is this only me?  What version of tar was used to create the cnews tar file?
>the sdbm archives as well as the cnews archive look hosed, while the rn & reap
>stuff seems ok. (a bunch of other stuff I grabbed at the same time looks ok as 
>well)
>
>I am trying to un-tar it with the tar that comes w/SunOS 4.1.1.
>
>--John
>
>

I have gotten some complaints about this, and now can finally post it
to our group (my first post to the net, actually) to let everyone know
the score:

I put cnews.tar.Z up in 'ustar' format.  This is the tar that comes
with 3.1.0.  I stayed away from Coherent's stock tar because I have
had bad experiences with it before in the past.  I probably should've
marked it as cnews.ustar.Z, but after staying up 7 hours late to 
kermit the sucker to my local FTP site so I could FTP it to piggy,
I may not have been thinking very clearly.

Rick

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>! John Winans                     Advanced Computing Research Facility  !
>! winans@mcs.anl.gov              Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois !
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