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From: bfishman AT nirvanah DOT corp DOT es DOT com (Barry Fishman)
Subject: Re: Problems with pipes under b17
12 Dec 1996 07:43:25 -0800 :
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Re: Scott Kay<spkay AT powersoft DOT com>
>I'm experiencing a problem with the following under b17. If I try the
>following 'zcat all.tar.gz | tar tvf -' under b17 I get:
> ...

Between B16 and B17, the pipe connection went from binary to ascii breaking
the byte counts associated with the tar format (moving through the pipe).
Fortunately, its GNU tar, so one can: 'tar tfvz all.tar.gz'.

Barry
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