"yo _" <exhausted01@hotmail.com>  wrote:
 > 	I recently gzipped and tarred a lot files off of my NetBSD machine to back 
 > them up. I uploaded the files via ftp to another machine in my home. I 
 > reformatted and installed a more "user-friendly" O/S for my brother, but 

My guess, based on looking very quickly at your test file, is that you
ftp'd the files in ASCII mode instead of binary mode.

But I didn't really look at it all that hard.