Re: cannot open tar file.

From: Jean-Pierre Radley (jpr_at_jpr.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: 26 Feb 2004 15:35:06 -0500

ron typed (on Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:13:45PM -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. :-(

Well, if it does not make any scents, then it does not stink.

In order to make some sense out of your problem, I had also asked you to
tell us what the 'file" command on OSR 5 said about the tarball. So
what's the answer?

And since tar on Linux is really gtar, please get a copy of gtar for OSR
5 and see if that behaves any differently. 

-- 
JP

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