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- From: jflood@iat.holonet.net (Jim Flood)
- Subject: Re: gcc 2.3.1 install problems
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- References: <1992Dec16.045215.18105@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:56:09 GMT
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- > I experienced similar problems with the binaries at first. I did the
- > downloading and everrything in binary as supposed and uncompressed
- > the archive in the MacPartition using macCompress. The problem in my
- > case seemed to be the dragging of the tape archive to the unix
- > filesystem. The archive untar'ed fine, but the binbaries were unusable.
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- I had a problem downloading binary files in the MacPartition and dragging
- them to the unix filesystem also. It seems that the A/UX Finder adds some
- hundred+ bytes to the front of the file, making uncompress or tar not
- recognize the file data. The solution is to set the filetype/creator of
- the file to something A/UX recognizes *before* dragging the file to the
- unix filesystem. I set them to filetype 'BIN ' and creator 'A/UX', then
- I can just drag downloaded tar files, compressed or not, from the MacPartition
- to the unix file system with no problems.
-
- Jim Flood
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