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RE: Untarring startup-scripts.tgz
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: RE: Untarring startup-scripts.tgz
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:56:30 -0400
You should use tar -zxvf not tar -xvf.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Nowak [mailto:mnowak@quixote.colorado.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 10:54 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Untarring startup-scripts.tgz
>
>
> Actually, I tried two different ftp's (the Cygwin ftp facility
> first,
> then downloading via Netscape) from 3 or 4 different mirror sites
> (US,
> Sweden). The downloaded file seemed to be the same size as the
> source, and I did untar as below, i.e., "tar -xvf startup-
> scripts.tgz"
> and all produced the error message below.
>
> I had been following the Documentation for installing Cygwin and
> XFree86, and had no other problems with the other ftp'd files.
> "bunzip2
>
> extract.exe.bz2" and "./Xinstall.sh" both seemed to work
> fine. (Although that was the only file I tried to untar within
> Cygwin.)
>
> I did note that the "startup-scripts.tgz" file at all the mirror
> sites
> had the most recent date on it (July 2, a day or two after all the
> other files within the directory), so I wondered about that.
>
> But it was late, so I'll try a few more ftp facilities tonight and
> see
> if I have better luck, unless somebody has a different suggestion.
>
> -Mike Nowak
>
> >How are you downloading? Netscape? It is being corrupted during
> download.
> >I know several users have downloaded and the archive is not
> corrupted.
> >
> >Suhaib
> >
> >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
> >
> >Alfred Vahau
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >
> >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
> >
> >M. Nowak