Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ucla-cs!jsin
From: jsin@CS.UCLA.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: tar format?
Message-ID: <10058@shemp.UCLA.EDU>
Date: 27 Dec 87 11:19:06 GMT
References: <652@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <695@koko.UUCP>
Sender: root@CS.UCLA.EDU
Reply-To: jsin@CS.UCLA.EDU (John Sin)
Organization: UCLA School Of Engineering &  Applied Science
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Keywords: nethack tar format

In article <695@koko.UUCP> foobar@koko.UUCP (John Fruetel) writes:
>In article <652@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU> shapiro@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU (brian shapiro) writes:
>>
>>To the user who posted nethack
>> 
>>why did you post it in uuncoded tar format. why not uuencoded arc, pkarc
>>or other similar form?
>>
>>I couldn't get it to uncompress at our site (which I am certain is our
>>problem). 
>> 
>...
>Hmmm...  I couldn't uncompress it either.  Me thinks that there may be a
>problem here.  I agree that the posted format was strange.  I vote
>for a repost in a uuencoded/arc format.
>

Well, I uudecoded, uncompressed, and un-tarred it w/o any problems,
but I did have a slight annoyance in that all files were owned by '1874' or
some such person. It would not have been a problem, but the files were
in mode 600! This made it impossible for me to copy them to the PC machines.
I had to ask the 'root' to change the owner to me. Anybody else had this
problem? Whose sorry idea was this?

Otherwise, I am grateful to (Steve Creps?) for posting it. Keep up the good
work! BTW, how did you get it down to <350KB ?  Are you listening, Steve?
  

John (Jonghoon) Sin
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