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From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problem with gzip on FBSD 2.0 bindist
Date: 02 Dec 1994 07:29:21 GMT
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
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Message-ID: <BLYMN.94Dec2175921@mallee.awadi.com.au>
References: <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com> <JKH.94Nov30114654@whisker.hubbard.ie>
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In-reply-to: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie's message of 30 Nov 1994 11:46:54 GMT
>>>>> "Jordan" == Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie> writes:
In article <JKH.94Nov30114654@whisker.hubbard.ie> jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:
Jordan> In article <3bg7s3$49@edwin.bga.com> phighley@bga.com
Jordan> (Paul T. Highley) writes: This problem is clearly an
Jordan> oversight on my part since people all over the
Jordan> comp.os.386bsd* groups have successfully installed 2.0
Jordan> FreeBSD from the
Jordan> You're right! :-)
Jordan> # gzip -c -d bindist.aa | tar -tvf -
Jordan> Uh. No. You're only doing the first part of what is a
Jordan> *split* archive. This message: gunzip: bindist.aa:
Jordan> unexpected end of file Is entirely correct! :-)
Jordan> Try instead:
Jordan> cat bindist.?? | gzip -c -d | tar -tvf -
Jordan,
Shouldn't the tar command have the B option in there? viz:
cat bindist.?? | gzip -c -d | tar -tvBf -
to ensure that tar reads entire blocks from the pipe? Just a minor
nit....
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Brett Lymn