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From: dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk (Denis Howe)
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Subject: Re: problems with !extract
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Date: 17 May 91 11:56:17 GMT
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In-Reply-To: spt1@ukc.ac.uk's message of 16 May 91 21:05:46 GMT

Two hints concerning extracting stuff from uuencoded, compressed tar
archives (as used by !Extract):

1. Tar seems to hang up or fall over if there isn't enough free RAM to
run compress.

2. The last line before the final "end" should start with a space.
This sometimes gets lost in the mailing or editting.  I'm glad to see
that Alan is using a uuencode which puts trailing characters on the
end of each line - that should help protect (otherwise) trailing
spaces.

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