Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3A9EFACB.9A3764CE@veritas.com> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 17:43:39 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Pietsch CC: Kenneth Axelson , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Unable to Un-tar Documentation References: <3A9E9A77.2E15D9B3@babel.lz.att.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gregory Pietsch wrote: > > Here's a possible reason: The file is a tar.gz file in disguise. Rename it to cygwin-docs.tar.gz and see if it decompresses and untars. > If true, your tar command will need the 'z' option: tar xzf tar_file or alternately you can: zcat tar_file | tar xf - > > Hi, > > I downloaded cygwin-docs_tar.tar from www.cygwin.com and have been unable to untar it. When I try, tar gives me a message "tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive" > > > > Do you have any help for me? > > > > Thank you, > > Ken Axelson > > > > -- > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple