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From: name@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (tony cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Problem with tar; files that exist but can't be read
Message-ID: <8901170655.AA26245@Portia.stanford.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 89 05:55:31 GMT
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I copied a tar file from UNIX and un tarred it using tar for the Macintosh.
It worked fine - the untarring operation created a new folder and put in all
the files as it should have. The files were all the correct size too. But
they are unreadable. I set them to type TEXT and owner TEXT as a tar option
but no word processor can read them. Neither can Fedit nor Symantic Tools.
Mighty peculiar. The even peculiarer thing is that I repeated this operation
several times (changing various linefeed options) and just once one of the
files extracted was readable (it was of type TEXT/TEXT). This is strange
because all the UNIX files were ascii files so either all or none should be
readable.

It beats me why Fedit doesn't read them. Any ideas?

Tony Cooper