From: colin AT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp (Colin Peters)
Subject: gzip corruption (b14)
28 Oct 1996 20:46:19 -0800
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In-reply-to: James Macnicol's message of Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:24:33 +1100 <199610280124.MAA19757@student.anu.edu.au>
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> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:24:33 +1100
> From: James Macnicol <user0385 AT student DOT anu DOT edu DOT au>
> 
> I've just tar'ed some directories up to archive them with like
> 
>    tar cvfz foo.tar.gz foo
> 
> where foo is a directory.  
> 
> I've now discovered that all these files are corrupted (and I've deleted

As is my wont I will mention a possibly related, but really quite distant
problem. Using the tar that came with b16 under the command line (not bash)
on Win 95 will not properly handle the '-r' option to append files to the
tar archive. It replaces them instead. I downloaded a different tar port from
CICA and used that instead.

Colin.

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