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From: Craig Partridge <craig@loki>
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: \"tar\" and non-8-bit byte machines
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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 09:51:15 EST
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	In fact you frequently end up grabbing binaries along with
text files on tar tapes.  If you tar a source tree you are likely
to pick up stray binaries.  I know, I have spent several hours sometimes
trying to successfully move a source tree from a 10-bit byte machine
to an 8 bit byte machine.  Checksum errors keep cropping up because
I missed some binary file somewhere.

Craig Partridge
craig@bbn-loki
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