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The Question is:

 
Dear Wizard,
 
When using VMSTAR on Binary files, I am coming across corruption problems.
My commands are as follows....
 
$ VMSTAR/create file.tar file.bin
$ VMSTAR/binary/extract file.tar
 
file.bin;2 always has data missing.
 
$ dir file.bin/full
produces the following discrepancy
 
file.bin;1
Record Format : Variable length max 64 bytes
 
file.bin;2
Record Format : Fixed length 512 byte records
 
Is this the problem ?
Am I missing a qualifier ?
Am I using VMSTAR in the wrong way ?
 
Thankyou for your time Mr.Wizard.
 
Leanne

The Answer is :

 
  Please contact the maintainer(s) of VMSTAR for assistance, or
  try a tar utility or VMSTAR version other than the version in
  use here.  (It does appear that VMSTAR is broken.)
 
 


  

     
     
answer written or last revised on ( 27-JUN-2000 )

     
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