Re: tar problem

["Rudi Ahlers" <rudi.ahlers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

are you sure the extension is .tar? Quite often when you download files from
the net, it doesn't add the .gz to it, and you have to rename it to
file.tar.gz


Rudi Ahlers

Unix specialist &  Web Developer
Bonzai Web Design
http://www.bonzai.org.za

----- Original Message -----
From: "Magen Moonsamy" <MagenM@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Glug (E-mail)" <glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:43 AM
Subject: GLUG: tar problem


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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