cannot open tar file.

From: ron (rsol4747_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: 24 Feb 2004 10:20:28 -0800

Good Da: this will be reaching back for some. I'm a newbie at linux.
We have a SCO UnixWare 2.1.3. A tar was created (( tar -cvfhn tarball
/dal )), this is the instruction given to me. I moved over to a redhat
6.0 box and did a (( tar xvf tarball /dal )). the file opened and
created a directory /dal and created 2 sub directors /w0,/w1 with full
data included. I am tryed to move the dirctory /dal to another sco
computer also running SCO UnixWare 2.1.3. The dirs are from a Intel
360 box Xenix OS. On the new sco box I have tryed

tar -xvfnp tarball /dal
UX:tar INFO: 1 file not extracted
 
tar -xvf tarball /dal
UX:tar: INFO blocksize = 20
UX:tar: INFO: 1 file not extracted

tar xvAf tarball /dal
UX:tar: INFO: Suppressing absolute pathnames
UX:tar: INFO 1 file not extracted

 Nothing seems to work. The file size is 54Meg.
1: trying to move this tarfile to another machine.
2: Can still go back to the other machine and create a new tar file of
directory with new instruction with help :-). Please help to untar the
file or create a new tar and open this tar on other computer. Thanks
for any help.

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