Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/12/08/07:18:50
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Masatomo Ouchi [mailto:oouchi AT cns DOT canon DOT co DOT jp]
> Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 1:35 PM
> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Cc: oouchi AT cns DOT canon DOT co DOT jp
> Subject: B20.1:question on using bunzip2 and tar under NT 4.0 Japanese
> SP3
>
> (04)And it seems that "tar" does not work well, too.
> On the same condition,
> I tryed "tar" to another file
> that I think gotten correctly in HTTPing/FTPing.
>
> --- START ---
> bash-2.02$ tar -tvf b19_X11R6_3_tar.tar
> tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next file header
> tar: Skipping to next file header
> tar: Only read 8244 bytes from archive b19_X11R6_3_tar.tar
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> --- E N D ---
>
> Why?
> --
> oouchi AT cns DOT canon DOT co DOT jp
Hi,
have you downloaded the b19_X11..._tar.tar package with netscape? Rename the
package to b19_X111...tar.gz. Try it.
Reason:
Netscape renames the files to _tar.tar if the server sends .tar.gz.
Bye
Klaus
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