Say again,,
What is this bin command thing. Is that why the StarOffice files were .bin
files,, so they could be ftp'd easily?
Darn another thing to learn,,, will it ever end? I transfer files regularly
with ftp without using the bin command, and they seem to do just fine. Have
I been just lucky?
Michael C. Rock
-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Jason
Copenhaver
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 8:40 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Help with tar & FTP
yeah.. if you ftped it as ASCII then I'm afraid your out of luck.. when
you do that FTP will strip certain chars out I beleive.. Or maybe it adds
them.. I can't reember.. but.. in any case.. it is not good to transfer
binary files with out doing the 'bin' command first in the ftp session..
Jason
On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Norbert Cartagena wrote:
> Ok, I think I really did it this time. I was backing
> up some info from my laptop to my tower. So, I made a
> .tgz of my home directory and shot it over to my tower
> via FTP (the actual command line FTP command). I later
> retrieved it (with gftp) and tried to open it. Here's
> what I got (synopsys):
>
> tar xvzf omar.tgz
>
> unpacking...
> dir/dir2/
> dir/dir2/file
> dir/dir3/
> dir/file.tgz
>
> **Error, unexpected EOF**
>
> So, it's *starting* to unpack, but it hits an End of
> File right at the begining. Any hints as to what it
> might be? I'm affraid that for some reason the file
> was sent as ASCII (there was a warning of that at the
> FTP prompt but it didn't make any sense to me). If
> that's the case, is there any way to salvage it? The
> file's just over 1gig (as I said, my /home).
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Gnorb
>
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