Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 06:49:07 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
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	from Prashant TR on Fri, 12 May 2000 11:43:22 +0500 (MVT))
Subject: Re: Bug in tar112a?
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> Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 11:43:22 +0500 (MVT)
> From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
> 
> 
> I got the following errors while trying to extract files.
> 
> ==================
> $ tar zxvf /djgpp/zips/sh-utils-2.0i.tar.gz
> ...
> ...
> ...
> sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrdup.c
> sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrtod.c
> sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrtol.c
> sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrtoul.c
> sh-utils-2.0i/lib/xstrtoumax.c
> tar: Unexpected end of file in archive
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Processed all files possible, despite earlier errors
> 
> ===========
> The same thing happens with archives that have many files:
> 
> sh-utils-2.0[ghi].tar.gz. binutils-2.9.1.tar.gz, gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz

What is the size of the disk where TMPDIR points?

Tar runs gzip via `popen', to unzip the archive; `popen' redirects
gzip's output to a temporary file.  If TMPDIR points to a RAM disk or
any other place where there's not enough space for holding the entire
unzipped archive, you will get this error.

As a rule of thumb, you need to make sure that TMPDIR has enough free
space to hold 4 times the compressed archive.  For large packages such
as GCC you will need about 40-50MB.

This is all explained in README.djgpp file that comes with the
distribution, btw.

> The same archives work fine with djtar, however.

DJTAR unzips the archive on the fly, so it doesn't need the extra disk
space.