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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:42:43 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
Cc:        "Marcelo J. Iturbe" <marcelo@msm.cl>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: damaged .tar.gz file
Message-ID:  <20000726224243.E239@parish>
In-Reply-To: <397F594B.EE9EB5AB@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:34:03PM -0700
References:  <4.3.2.7.2.20000726170634.04117750@msm.cl> <397F594B.EE9EB5AB@urx.com>

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:34:03PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> 
> "Marcelo J. Iturbe" wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > I transfered a tar.gz file to an NT server, copied it to back up, and when
> > I try to restore I get an error stating that the file is not valid format.
> > 
> > Anything I can do to rescue the info in the tar.gz file?
> 
> Yes, re-download it. You probably did an ascii copy and you lost your
> 8th bits. Now none of the checksums or crc agree because the file is
> different. You have to use binary and sometimes you have to force a
> binary copy (ftp or etc). Ftp on some systems default to ascii and it
> basically does and a.and.0x7f to the data.
> 

If he used (M$) rcp to copy it and didn't use the -b option then it
will have done a LF->CR/LF conversion.

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