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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!olivea!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD binarys will not extract Date: 27 Oct 1993 00:47:18 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2akgem$b9h@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2akcd8INN8pf@uwm.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <2akcd8INN8pf@uwm.edu>, Matthew C Rockwell <mcr@convex.csd.uwm.edu> wrote: >Help!! After I download members of the bin_tgz.xx files none of them will >extract except .aa. Yes, I checked to be sure I ftp'd them with binary. >When I try to extract I get an 'unknown file type' error or something along Those files are not individual tar files, they are all part of one big gzipped tar file. You need to extract them with the extraction utilities, and not by hand. (But, you can extract them as a group by doing a command similar to the below commands) # cd / # cat /usr/distrib/bin_tgz* | gunzip -dc | tar xpf - ... Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me