In the process of finding a usable method of transferring files from machine to machine I started to use the tar command in the terminal. Unfortuantely I have been having some problems with certain applications. For example I have been trying to make a tar file of the application directory.
tar -cvf Applications.tar /Applications
It seems to work for the most part excep for a few applications. After I tar the Adobe Acrobar Reader and untar the file, it is corrupted. I have been using the following command to decompress:
tar -xvf Applications.tar
this issue happens with other applications as well when they are tared, but they don't appear to happen with Apple compiled software. Are the software companies not doing something that apple is. Does anyone have any ideas.
ROMAN
tar -cvf Applications.tar /Applications
It seems to work for the most part excep for a few applications. After I tar the Adobe Acrobar Reader and untar the file, it is corrupted. I have been using the following command to decompress:
tar -xvf Applications.tar
this issue happens with other applications as well when they are tared, but they don't appear to happen with Apple compiled software. Are the software companies not doing something that apple is. Does anyone have any ideas.
ROMAN