Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 13:21:44 +0200 (SAT) From: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> To: tlp@dfh.dk (Thomas L. Pedersen) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Uncompresing a Linux archive Message-ID: <E0yVDsu-0002bM-00@ns.cityip.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980501090643.00989df0@pophost.dfh.dk> from "Thomas L. Pedersen" at "May 1, 98 09:06:43 am"
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Thomas L. Pedersen wrote:
>
> The original file is a bourne script but the extraction command is:
>
> EXTRACTCMD="dd bs=10240 skip=1 if=${InstallPWD}/ws31gr 2>/dev/null |
> uncompress | tar -xf -"
>
> where as you can see the tar archive is copied from the installation file
> and then uncompressed and untared. However it produces error message
Odd. You say you get the error when you try to 'tar xzvf <archive>'? The
only thing I can think of is that maybe the version of compress used can't be
read by gzip (which is invoked by FreeBSD tar's 'z' option). Try the 'Z'
option to run it through uncompress, or try to uncompress (or gunzip) it
manually before untarring it....?
-- V
Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878
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