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To: leifn@image.dk (Leif Neland), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: virus?!? Files can't be written reliably
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>So I tar'ed /bin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin together on the working machine, and
ftp'ed the tar to the strange.
>
>When I untar'ed the files, tar stopped in the middle and tried to skip to
the next header. Bad copy, I guessed, ftp again. Stopped at another place.
Now mv dont work, vi also stops with a trap.

This may be way off the mark. Did you set binary FTP mode?

Later,
Jason Wells