From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 1 04:21:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA04921 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 04:21:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.cityip.co.za (ns.cityip.co.za [196.25.223.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA04912 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 04:21:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wjv@cityip.co.za) Received: from wjv by ns.cityip.co.za with local (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yVDsu-0002bM-00; Fri, 1 May 1998 13:21:44 +0200 Subject: Re: Uncompresing a Linux archive In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980501090643.00989df0@pophost.dfh.dk> from "Thomas L. Pedersen" at "May 1, 98 09:06:43 am" To: tlp@dfh.dk (Thomas L. Pedersen) Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 13:21:44 +0200 (SAT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-PGP: ftp://ftp.cityip.co.za/users/wjv/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.cityip.co.za/~wjv/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Johann Visagie Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 '? 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message