Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:07:18 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: "David A. Richards" <dave@ns1.richcon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar extraction shooting itself in foot Message-ID: <19990213190718.4920.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990212104258.16184A-100000@ns1.richcon.com> of Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:49:28 MST References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990212104258.16184A-100000@ns1.richcon.com>
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[Reformatted for legibility. Please find out where the Return key is and limit your lines to 65 to 70 characters so that people don't get eye strain trying to read long lines.] > % tar -xvf var.tar > (uncompresses about 40 files) > tar: Skipping to next file header... > % > > The problem is it only extracts about 1% of all the files in > the archive, then gives up when it says "Skipping to next file > header...". > > Anyone know what's going on with tar? I tried ftp'ing the file > to an NT system with Winzip and it extracted all the files in > the archive okay... but I don't get to keep permissions that > way. Have you tried to unpack it with pax? If that fails, have you tried to both create and unpack it with pax? -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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