Re: cannot open tar file.
From: D. Thomas Podnar (tom_at_microlite.com)
Date: 02/26/04
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:13:59 -0500
ron wrote:
>
> Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message news:<20040225213050.GA3164@jpradley.jpr.com>...
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> > 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. :-(
If you have pax on the machine you want to read extract the archive on,
try reading the it with pax.
pax -v -f tarball
To see if you can list it.
pax -r -v -f tarball
to extract it.
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