Binaries come out as text

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Binaries come out as text

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Name: Steve Grady
Date: February 16, 2000 at 16:40:35 Pacific
Subject: Binaries come out as text

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I recently tried to use a SNES emulator on RH 6.0, but when I used untar and gzip to extract it, the programs were in text form instead of binary. I was storring them on a cd formatted for windows, but I don't think that should have done anything.

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Response Number 1

Name: Steve Grady
Date: February 16, 2000 at 16:53:42 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

Oh, and they were the binary distibution, not the source.

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Response Number 2

Name: Ben Shirani
Date: February 27, 2000 at 15:58:10 Pacific

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The only thing that distingushes bin's from text (that you can see) is the permissions. Check to see if you have the +x (executable) flag on the binary files, otherwise they will be recognized as not exectuable. Check out the man chmod for more info.
--Ben Shirani (rooster@stic.net)

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Response Number 3

Name: faisal
Date: March 3, 2000 at 06:15:45 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

It seems to me like a problem with the source .gz files or .tar
If you had them ftp'ed then do it again using the "bin" command before you ftp ...
Unix doesn't care what the names are or even permissions.
It stores all the files as a series of bites
so make sure of the source....
things might have been misinterpreted somewhere along the way from DOS to Unix....
dos appends Line feeds and other special chars to text files....

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