Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!mvore
From: mvore@wam.umd.edu (Michael Wood Vore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Trouble with untarring (was:Re: cnews/wnews/rn)
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.031256.18655@wam.umd.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 03:12:56 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.020348.20525@skypod.guild.org> <1991Jun24.235132.22278@netcom.COM>
Sender: mvore@dville.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Lines: 19

In article <1991Jun24.235132.22278@netcom.COM> zap@netcom.COM Paul Eastham
  writes 

>>know what happened, since I've used tar many times before hand.  
>I've resigned myself to downloading the files from piggy to my public access
>Unix system, untarring them there, then downloading them.
>

I've tried downloading UNZIP310.ZIP from piggy, and the binary view of 
it looks like a .ZIP file alright, but the latest PKUNZIP (DOS) version
will not unzip it.  And with coherent TAR not too reliable (I havn't 
even had it trash a directory yet) What's a user to do??

Speaking of TAR, I have a Colorado Memory Systems tape drive on my '386
It works really fine under DOS,  Now that I have Coherent up and running(?)
I'd like to do my backups onto that form of tape.  Who knows about using
it??
- mike
  mvore@wam.umd.edu