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From: cruff@ncar.ucar.edu (Craig Ruff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem with tar; files that exist but can't be read
Message-ID: <1247@ncar.ucar.edu>
Date: 17 Jan 89 15:28:23 GMT
References: <8901170655.AA26245@Portia.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: cruff@handies.UCAR.EDU (Craig Ruff)
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <8901170655.AA26245@Portia.stanford.edu> name@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (tony cooper) writes:
>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.

Ah, sorry about that.  This is due to a bug in the program that fails to
set the version number properly to zero.  If Apple isn't going to use that
stupid version number, why don't they either get rid of it or do the right
thing (i.e. force it to zero) on HFS calls?

Anyway, you can get the fixed version of tar via anonymous FTP from
handies.ucar.edu (128.117.64.4) in the file 'pub/mactar.hqx'.  If you
saved the other enhanced version that Sak Wathanasin sent recently,
it also has this bug fixed (along with better directory selection).
This enhanced version is also available in the file 'pub/mactar.1.2.hqx'.
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