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sparap@jim.mscs.mu.edu (Rodney Sparapani) writes:

>In article <ZHOU.92Apr14170516@ANACIN.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU> zhou@cs.cmu.edu (Frank Lei Zhou) writes:
>>Hi PC world,
>>answered before.  I would like to know if there is any program on PC
>>which can uncompress and untar a file that is tar'ed and compress'ed
>>on a Unix machine.  The key is that the compress and tar programs on
>>BOTH Unix machine and PC must recognize the file previously processed
>>at the other end.
>>
>>
>>Frank

There are copies of tar and compress for the PC somewhere in the
public domain.  I think they are at Simtel20 in the file utilities
directory for MSDOS (FILUTL I think).  There are a wide selection to
choose from - comments on which ones are best???

>To: zhou@cs.cmu.edu

>We recently had a similar problem.  Files were zipped(PKZIP).
>One of the problems was the differences in the ASCII file formats
>of DOS and UNIX.  To get around this(in HP-UX), there are two
>commands ux2dos file1 > file2 and dos2ux file1 > file2.
>The problem remains:  were the original files UNIX or DOS?
>Are the zipped files UNIX or DOS?  I don't know how to get around this
>problem except to go through all the possible permutations until
>the program works or looks correct.

The .ZIP files are not in any particular format (Unix or DOS), so
don't try any conversion on them - treat them as binary files...
As the files are unzipped you can convert them using unzip.  I know
that the version mounted on our unix boxes (suns) of unzip (V4.1) has
a flag for converting to Unix format (-a).  I would reckon that this
is the safest route to take.

Dave.