Re: cannot open tar file.

From: ron (rsol4747_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: 26 Feb 2004 12:13:45 -0800

Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message news:<20040225213050.GA3164@jpradley.jpr.com>...

> 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".

Hi I ftp'd the tarball back to the linux(Redhat 6.0)box did a tvf
tarball. It returned a list of directories and files. I than delected
the dir dal/ on the linux box than did xvf tarball /dal.
it recreated the new /dal with directories and files. So the tarball
does have data. Note the size again is 54M., I'm assuming Linux does
not care about size. Noted on the Sco (2.3.1) box with command's tvf
and xvf it just returned to the # with no error or action on the file.
It does not make any scents. :-(

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