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- From: yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Mac <-> A/UX file transfers
- Keywords: binary file conversion
- Message-ID: <BtB5DA.GD9@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:29:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: acsu.BtB5DA.GD9
- References: <1992Aug20.203910.7011@tcsi.com>
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- In article <1992Aug20.203910.7011@tcsi.com> pbuck@tcs.com (Peter Buckner) writes:
- >Am I missing something here?
-
- Yes.
-
- The cpio file (the 9 megger one) got "fixed" by A/UX 2.0 because it
- treats cpio file as TEXT file. This happens when you move the
- downloaded binary cpio file from MacOS partition to A/UX partition.
-
- The best way to avoid this is transfering the file from Sun
- to A/UX partition directly.
-