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From: zap@netcom.COM (Paul Eastham)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Trouble with untarring (was: Re: cnews/wnews/rn)
Summary: Ok, so ustar works, but what about gnu tar?
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.224729.16610@netcom.COM>
Date: 26 Jun 91 22:47:29 GMT
References: <1991Jun23.020348.20525@skypod.guild.org> <1991Jun24.235132.22278@netcom.COM> <1991Jun25.220805.118@crash.cts.com>
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In article <1991Jun25.220805.118@crash.cts.com> nkraft@crash.cts.com (Norman Kraft) writes:
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>I discovered the same, and the answer is to use ustar, not tar. The MWC tar
>has problems with file tarred by non MWC software and generally creates
>these bizarre results. You can duplicate this yourself, as I have, by
>ustar-ing a file, then trying to 'tar xvf' it.
...
I forgot to mention in an earlier post that gnu tar ALSO produces the same 
strange results.  I was unable to get ustar to work at all, so I am still
stuck untarring then downloading.

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