my files are in various directories. I read a input file called test.txt to get the files and tar them up. I then move the tar file to a unix box. Example of my input file: test/test1.txt test2/test.sql test/test2/test3.txt I am able to move the file to unix box but when I untar the files and take a look at it they have ^M and end of each line. I am doing ftp in binary mode. If I use asii I get the error block size error.