Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!m2c!wpi!john
From: john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: MIT worm report
Summary: Extracting compresses tar files
Keywords: tar, compress, extracting
Message-ID: <1114@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 89 16:05:21 GMT
References: <1239@csd4.milw.wisc.edu> <9420@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <2523@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@wpi.wpi.edu (John F Stoffel)
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Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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I just got a copy of Empire from berkley that was first tar'd and then
compressed.  We had absolutely not problems whatsoever getting it back
to normal.  The problem might be that you were using *older* versions
of the two programs that didn't like each other, but then again, I'm
just guessing.

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