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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Cant uncompress .tar.Z files downloaded to VMS nodes
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.081552.46@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 08:15:52 -0800
- Organization: GTE Govt. Systems, Electronics Def. Div.
- Lines: 44
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- BACKGROUND:
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- We don't have direct access to the internet for our Ultrix machines (yet) so
- I have to do the follwing when ftping files:
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- Log into our remote gateway, a VMS node.
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- Use UCX$FTP/ULTRIX to connect to remote machines, usually unix boxes.
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- Set mode to BINARY and get the files (*.tar.Z and *.gif files), e.g.:
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- ftp> set mode bin
- ftp> get somefile.tar.Z somefile_tar.z # remember the destination is
- # a VMS node.
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- Do a VMS to VMS copy to our local VMS node:
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- $ copy somefile_tar.z mynode"user passwd"::disk:[dir]
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- Use dcp to copy the files to the local Ultrix node (a DECstation 5000/200
- running Ultrix 4.2A):
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- % dcp mynode/user/passwd::'disk:[dir]somefile_tar.z' ./somefile.tar.Z
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- THE PROBLEM:
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- uncompress gives a "corrupted file" error when I attempt to go from a .tar.Z
- to a .tar file:
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- % uncompress somefile.tar.Z
- uncompress: corrupt input
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- A possibly related problem is that downloaded GIF files won't work with the
- motifgif application, the error is "not in gif format".
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- Direct mail preferred
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- THANKS!
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- Mike Krajnak "Nobody else would be stupid enough to have my opinions"
- GTE MCSD krajnakm%venus.dnet@gte.com | (719) 570-4752
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