smbclient creates bad tar files

Elrond elrond at samba.org
Sat Aug 12 16:44:27 GMT 2000


On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 02:53:07AM -0400, John Larsen wrote:
> Another interesting note. I just discovered that if I gzip the tar then ungzip
> that tar it cleans it up and works fine.
> definatly something in the smbclient.
> 
> 

Wait a sec?

You do:
	gzip xyz.tar
	gunzip xyz.tar.gz

And after that the whole thing is better? This would mean,
that gzip/gunzip is buggy, because the result after both
steps shouldn't be different from the original.
(Yes, I know about [ac]time.)


    Elrond




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