From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 12 8: 9:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from retribution.net (retribution.net [207.96.1.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA0C1524A for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 08:09:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjoseff@retribution.net) Received: from retribution.net (retribution.net [207.96.1.17]) by retribution.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA07470; Wed, 12 May 1999 11:12:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 11:12:11 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Joseff To: root Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Corrupt tar.gz ... In-Reply-To: <3738FDE0.EFBB73A2@visionpro.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 May 1999, root wrote: }Hi, All. } I have a serious problem. I have a tar.gz file that has gone }'corrupt' on me. I'm getting an "Unexpected end of file." error when I }try to ungzip it. How can I fix this? (I wouldn't be so concerned it }this wasn't my only copy of it). } Any help is more than greatly appreciated. 1st, gunzip it. 2nd, tar -xvf . It should extract the file up until the error. The error you are getting just indicates that the tar process was terminated prematurely. Hope this helps. -- Matthew Joseff, Web Development RCN Corp. 703-321-2410 www.rcn.com NASDAQ: RCNC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message