From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 13 11:12:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04840 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:12:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04829 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:12:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 4921 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Feb 1999 19:07:18 -0000 Message-ID: <19990213190718.4920.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:07:18 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "David A. Richards" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar extraction shooting itself in foot References: In-reply-to: of Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:49:28 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message