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Subject:	Re: tar problems (was: Two unrelated HP3000 questions - JBDC and FTP)
From:	Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:05:25 -0700
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"Danny A. van Delft" wrote:
> Has the tar problem with variable record length type files been fixed
> then? As far as I know tar will create these type correctly, but in
> some cases fail to correctly extract the data into them.

The tar data corruption problem (discovered by Danny) for large binary MPE
files documented in SR 8606130202 has not yet been fixed.  :-(

The tar data corruption problem where MPE fixed ASCII files could have their
last record truncated as documented in SR 5003459925 now has a beta patch
available:

MPELXJ7A for 6.0 (BT)
MPELXJ7B for 6.5 (BT)
MPELXJ7C for 7.0 (PR - patch requested but not yet started)

FYI, this was determined to be a bytestream emulator problem, so that is what
is being patched instead of TAR.HPBIN.SYS.  I.e. this patch fixes code used by
lots of other things besides tar.
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