Re: Please tell me this is curable...
In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.04.10001241533440.14814-100000@benatar.snurgle.org> you wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Patrick wrote:
>
>> Now its not working as when I ftp the data in from NT, I get this:
>>
>> atrick@enterprise:~$ tar xzvf datstore
>> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
>> tar: Skipping to next header
>
> Maybe you transferred it in ASCII mode. Hopefully you didn't transfer it
> in ASCII mode when you sent it to the NT box because then you'll never get
> it back. If you did it in ASCII mode sending it back to the Linux system
> then you must simply resend it in binary.
The problem is the lf -> crlf switch. Just reverse it. There
will be posts saying this won't work but it will. You'd think
it doesn't work because what about valid crlf pairs in the
original data. But they get changed to crcrlf by the ascii
transfer and back to crlf by the fix. It would be a problem
if you were hitting the data recursively but you're just doing
one pass.
I know there are little windows utils to do this but someone
can cobble up an awk one-liner or something. I did it with rexx.
Rick
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