Re: cannot open tar file.

From: D. Thomas Podnar (tom_at_microlite.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 16:22:13 -0500

"D. Thomas Podnar" wrote:
>
> ron wrote:
> >
> > 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. :-(
>
> If you have pax on the machine you want to read extract the archive on,
> try reading the it with pax.

Yes, I really do speak English. Just not today ;-)

I meant to say...

If you have pax on the machine you want to extract the archive on,
try reading or extracting the archive 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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