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Re: Files with .tgz extension?

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From: JNW International
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 00:00
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In article <dhassell-0205962103200001@m055-446-a-d1.tc.tufts.edu>,
David Hassell <dhassell@diamond.tufts.edu> wrote:
>
>>In any case, two points:
>>
>>    1) did you ftp this file to best? Did you make sure to do it in
>>       binary mode?
>
>Valid point although I think the problem he was experiencing was the fact
>that the file he was trying to decompress was a Mac file.  Many of the files
>on Tenon's site are in this format.

Yes, I did binary ftp to best and to my Mac, as well as direct binary
ftp from Tenon.  Before I saw the messages, I tried StuffIt Expander
to just gunzip, and it worked except then the tar file had some
garbage in the beginning of the file, but the UNIX tar command can
just skip the garbage and untar everything OK.  If I used StuffIt
Expander to untar, then every file in the archive would have garbage
in the header.

Will try out the dfork method.  So dfork is a MachTen command?  Could
not find in shellx.
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From: jnw@shellx.best.com (JNW International)
Subject: Re: Files with .tgz extension?
Date: 1996/05/03
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