Re: GLUG: tar problem

[Neil Fryer <neilf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Magen


Is this definately a .tar archive, or is it a .tar.gz? If it's a .tar.gz tery 
zcat <filename> | tar -xvf -


Regards
Neil Fryer
neilf@xxxxxxxxx


On Thursday 01 March 2001 10:43, Magen Moonsamy scribbled:

> > I have a 20 Meg tar file that I am trying to extract and this is the error
> I get:
>
> tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: 230 garbage bytes ignored at end of archive
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
> any help? thanx!
>
> Magen Moonsamy
> UPTIME TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

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