Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:51:11 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Matthew Taylor <connecte@sprynet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot untar a tarred file?? Message-ID: <19981028235111.C9657@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <363765C4.30A1864F@sprynet.com> References: <363765C4.30A1864F@sprynet.com>
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Matthew Taylor wrote: > Everytime I try to untar the new Netscape communicator v4.5, i get a > tar: directory checksum error. What does this mean? What are you typing to untar it? You should use, tar xfv file.tar or, if it's a .tar.gz or .tgz file, you need to tell tar to unzip it as well, tar xfzv file.tar.gz tar xfzv file.tgz gzipped tar files are more common, for obvious reasons (ie: they're smaller). If it's a .tar.Z file, I think you can just use tar xfzv file.tar.Z as well, since I think gzip can handle .Z files (tar just calls gzip to uncompress the file, AIUI). -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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