More tar help

[Gary Weimer 588-0953]

In article <25945 at adm.brl.mil>, P_SECINARO at unhh.unh.edu writes:
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|> Or am I somehow downloading the files incorrectly?  I downloaded the
tar file
|> as ASCII and the compress files as binary onto a VMS system (on which I do
|> have plenty of space) and then transferred them over to my system via
|> Kermit.

tar files also have control characters and cannot be downloaded as ASCII.

weimer at ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )