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Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 18:50:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Stephen Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To: Phillip Smith <phillip@3bags.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?
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windows ftp defaults to ascii more, not binary, so its adds a \r to each
\n - you might save your tar files if you upload ascii to get them
stripped out again.

On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote:

>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this?
>=20
> freedom# tar -xf www.tar
> tar: Skipping to next file header...
> tar: Unknown file type '' for
> =97=E7=D3=EE=EF=E68=CB=9F=DC=AB=BB=DF[+=EE=AFn=B7=D1_}=FB=8F=86=ED=D2M=C2=
2=C5=BE=F0=90=B1=E7=D5V=B42=AC=A38(Uvj=DBu=BE=DF=D7=A9=A6=85=E4, extracted =
as
> normal file
> tar: Skipping to next file header...
>=20
>=20
> I don't understand what's happened to this archive (and serveral others t=
hat
> represent my entire system backup)? I'm having the same problem with a wh=
ole
> set of archives that I ftp to a remote Windows machine... the ones I stor=
ed
> on my other FreeBSD machine are fine. Did something happen during the
> transfer?
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> Also, for each archive, the first few items are extracted properly and th=
en
> there all this junk... any thought _really_ appreciated. If these are
> corrupt, I've lost a pile of data.
>=20
> Many thanks in advance,
>=20
> phillip.
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