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From: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pkzip on Unix
Message-ID: <183@metapyr.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 90 16:00:04 GMT
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Reply-To: david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson)
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I have often moved .tar.Z files to my PC and uncompressed them and untarred
them.  The mistake I most often make is to leave off the -i switch, which
stands for image mode, i.e. without it, linefeeds are converted to carriage
return linefeed pairs.  This does indeed result in a corrupt file.

I made the mistake so often that I wrote a small filter to convert CR-LF
pairs to a single LF.

Good luck.