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From: gingell@aurs01.UUCP (Mike Gingell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: TAR on a PC and detarring STAR-1.04.4.tar.Z
Summary: Me too!
Message-ID: <59877@aurs01.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 91 13:21:31 GMT
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Reply-To: gingell@aurw90.UUCP (Mike Gingell)
Organization: Alcatel Network Systems, Raleigh NC
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W%APG.PH.UCL.AC.UK@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:

"I can't get TAR to behave itself. So are there any UNUX users out there
who can help me"

I have had similar problems with tar programs for the PC. The problem
seems to be that they cannot untar sub-files with illegal PC file names
such as star.1.04.Z.  One tar prog I have asks for a replacement name
but does not seem to function properly when I give it one.  I have even
tried going in with a PC-Tools type program and editing sectors of the
file to change the names. When I do this tar ignores the files
presumably because a sum check is now invalid.

The solution would be for tar files to be posted with names obeying
some common constraints satisfying all likely destination machines.

Mike Gingell, Alcatel, Raleigh, NC USA  (919) 850-6444
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