From: K.Mueller@intershop.de (Klaus Mueller) Subject: RE: B20.1:question on using bunzip2 and tar under NT 4.0 Japanese SP3 8 Dec 1998 07:18:50 -0800 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" To: "'Masatomo Ouchi'" , gnu-win32@cygnus.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Masatomo Ouchi [mailto:oouchi@cns.canon.co.jp] > Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 1:35 PM > To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com > Cc: oouchi@cns.canon.co.jp > Subject: B20.1:question on using bunzip2 and tar under NT 4.0 Japanese > SP3 > > (04)And it seems that "tar" does not work well, too. > On the same condition, > I tryed "tar" to another file > that I think gotten correctly in HTTPing/FTPing. > > --- START --- > bash-2.02$ tar -tvf b19_X11R6_3_tar.tar > tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive > tar: Skipping to next file header > tar: Skipping to next file header > tar: Only read 8244 bytes from archive b19_X11R6_3_tar.tar > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > --- E N D --- > > Why? > -- > oouchi@cns.canon.co.jp Hi, have you downloaded the b19_X11..._tar.tar package with netscape? Rename the package to b19_X111...tar.gz. Try it. Reason: Netscape renames the files to _tar.tar if the server sends .tar.gz. Bye Klaus - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".