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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:15:53 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
Cc: David Loszewski <stealth215@mediaone.net>,
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Subject: Re: zips and tars | ASCII or Binary?
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On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 08:24:51PM -0500, Brian T.Schellenberger wrote:

> tars should effectively always binary, though they aren't realy valid fro=
m=20
> another O/S; if you got something perverse like a .tar file from a Window=
s=20
> machine there's no proper way to transfer it . . .

What do you mean by this last statement?  .tar is a standardized
archive format.  "Binary" only means "contains 8-bit characters".

Kris

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