On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:58 pm, Kurt Wall dropped these nuggets
of information:
> Tom Wilson wrote:
> > I asked:
> > > What is the output of:
> > >
> > > $ file mail.tar
> >
> > mail.tar: ASCII text, with no line terminators
>
> It's not a tar file, then. Here's the output for a tarball:
>
> $ file test.tar
> test.tar: GNU tar archive
>
> > Thanks. I appreciate the help.
>
> Try
>
> $ vi -b mail.tar
>
> and see what you can see.
>
> Kurt
The vi -b mail.tar produced the same results as with plain vi. @'s and
^'s.
I beginning to think that last time I did this I bonered it some how.
<sigh>
Thanks again.
--
Tom Wilson
Registered Linux user #199331
Live on your knees in conformity or die on your feet for honesty.
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