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Re: Untarring startup-scripts.tgz
- To: Michael Nowak <mnowak at quixote dot colorado dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Untarring startup-scripts.tgz
- From: Alfred Vahau <Alf dot Vahau at upng dot ac dot pg>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:27:37 +1000
- CC: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Organization: SNPS, UPNG
- References: <3B4A046D.5871A730@rocinante.colorado.edu>
- Reply-To: alfredv at upng dot ac dot pg
My experience has been:
1. Check that the downloaded file is of the same size as the source. If
not try another site.
2. If the file extension is .tgz then the option tar option is -xzf
i.e tar -xzf filename.tgz
Good luck
Alfred Vahau
Uni. PNG
Michael Nowak wrote:
> Downloading the July 2 dated version of the above (from various of the
> different mirror sites- all seem to be dated the same)
> doesn't seem to produce a readable file. I instead get:
>
> tar: 146 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> Anyone out there have a suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> M. Nowak