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Subject: Re: Trouble with untarring 
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.090140.605@otago.ac.nz>
From: brendan@otago.ac.nz (Brendan Murray, OUCSC)
Date: 26 Jun 91 09:01:39 NZDT
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> 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

I got down the unzip.sh.Z instead (or as well as). There were a few vagaries in
the shar file as well which threw me for a bit, but I sorted them out once I
concluded it was them not me, and now I have an unzip that works fine



> will not unzip it.  And with coherent TAR not too reliable (I havn't 

I alternated between coherent tar and ustar -- between them I always seem to
get what I want (so far). The gnutar available seems to be better than both and
reliable (again -- so far)

-- 
 Brendan Murray, Systems Manager
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