Re: cannot open tar file.

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 02/25/04

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    ron typed (on Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:13:47PM -0800):
    | tony@pcunix.com wrote in message news:<c1g78g$j68$1@pcls4.std.com>...
    | > ron <rsol4747@hotmail.com> wrote:
    | > >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
    |
    | $tar xvf tarball /dal
    | $UX:tar: INFO: 1 file not extracted
    |
    | $tar xvf tarball
    | $
    |
    | Tryed these two forms the errors are noted. Help :-0

    Are you sure of what, if anything, is in that tarball?

    If "file tarball" confirms that it is in fact a tar archive,
    then see what's in it with "tar tvf tarball". 

    -- 
JP
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