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From: s891961@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Peter David Cupit)
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: Trouble with untarring (was:Re: cnews/wnews/rn)
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.095359.25008@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 28 Jun 91 09:53:59 GMT
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zap@netcom.COM (Paul Eastham) writes:

>I've had the exact same problems with all kinds of tar files, in version 3.1
>of coherent.  It created all directories instead of files, and if you "cd" to
>any of the directories, you wind up going nowhere.  At first I couldn't delete
>them but I rediscovered the "rm -f" command, which thrashes all files/
>directories in the parameter regardless of safeguards.  if you try a "rmdir",
>it'll tell you something like "you can't delete the directory you are currently
>in."  
>I've resigned myself to downloading the files from piggy to my public access
>Unix system, untarring them there, then downloading them.

>I too would love hearing why it does this.
>-- 

Hello,

    I have coherent Release 3.1.0,  after having some initial problems
    with tar <couldn't work it at all>, I have had very few errors.

    I ftp files to ENCORE multimax at school <binary> uncompress them
    untar them,  and then tar them and compress them again, download
    this binary file and use uncompress and tar on Coherent,
    takes > 1hr on 286 to go from 500k compressed but it works fine,
    <altho noticed a couple of times that some error re inodes appeared
    but all I did was rm -r dir_name and did it again> all ok.
    cat tarfile | tar xvf - ,  works fine.   I just make sure all transfers
    are binary mode.  Btw  I tried unzip on coherent but didn't work
    works fine on the ENCORE.  Woudn't mind a zip tool tho.

    -Peter Cupit.