\"tar\" and non-8-bit byte machines

[Craig Partridge]

	In fact you frequently end up grabbing binaries along with
text files on tar tapes.  If you tar a source tree you are likely
to pick up stray binaries.  I know, I have spent several hours sometimes
trying to successfully move a source tree from a 10-bit byte machine
to an 8 bit byte machine.  Checksum errors keep cropping up because
I missed some binary file somewhere.

Craig Partridge
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