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
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