B20.1:question on using bunzip2 and tar under NT 4.0 Japanese SP3

[Klaus Mueller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Masatomo Ouchi [ mailto:oouchi@cns.canon.co.jp ]
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 1:35 PM
> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Cc: oouchi@cns.canon.co.jp
> Subject: B20.1:question on using bunzip2 and tar under NT 4.0 Japanese
> SP3
> 
> (04)And it seems that "tar" does not work well, too.
> On the same condition,
> I tryed "tar" to another file 
> that I think gotten correctly in HTTPing/FTPing.
> 
> --- START ---
> bash-2.02$ tar -tvf b19_X11R6_3_tar.tar
> tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next file header
> tar: Skipping to next file header
> tar: Only read 8244 bytes from archive b19_X11R6_3_tar.tar
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> --- E N D ---
> 
> Why?
> --
>   oouchi@cns.canon.co.jp


Hi,

have you downloaded the b19_X11..._tar.tar package with netscape? Rename the
package to b19_X111...tar.gz. Try it.

Reason:
Netscape renames the files to _tar.tar if the server sends .tar.gz.

Bye
Klaus
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