From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 22:07:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA08249 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:07:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA08233 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:07:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.05 #1) id 0zYfMt-0002uK-00; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:51:11 +0000 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:51:11 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Matthew Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot untar a tarred file?? Message-ID: <19981028235111.C9657@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <363765C4.30A1864F@sprynet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <363765C4.30A1864F@sprynet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.12i (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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