Subject: Re: MacGzip
To: macbsd-general mailing list <macbsd-general@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: None <monroe@cs.pdx.edu>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 07/04/1994 16:28:05
Matthew Ross Davis (matt.davis@vt.edu) writes:
> I have found some incompatibilities between the unix flavor of gzip and this
> one. Of course I wouldn't be able to tell you exactly what they are...
The only problem I've had with MacGzip is that it defaults to
uncompressing in ASCII mode, which _will_ corrupt the tar files. Make
sure you have it set to 'binary' mode before uncompressing.
>
> Matt
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- monroe
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