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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: X386/*/386BSD.X386-1.2E.bin.tar.Z-* cannot unpack Date: 12 Sep 92 10:35:16 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 40 Message-ID: <veit.716294116@du9ds3> References: <1992Sep11.211034@joust1.dsg.dec.com> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de In <1992Sep11.211034@joust1.dsg.dec.com> mishra@joust1.dsg.dec.com (Alok Kumar Mishra) writes: > I copied these files using ftp with image/binary option and when I tried > > cat /mnt/386BSD.X386* | uncompress | tar -xf - > I got > stdin: not in compressed format Unless there is some 386BSD.X386.README or so, which is *user* readable, the above is the standard way to go. Alternatively you should add "v" to the tar to see what you get or use cat /mnt/386BSD.X386* | tar -xvZf - > then I tried > cat /mnt/386BSD.X386* | tar -xf - > I got > cat: /mnt/386BSD.X386-1.2E.bin.tar: Input/output error > tar: Skipping to next file header... This oesn't uncompress, see above > Please tell me what I am doing wrong, > also /pub/incoming/ > I cannot read ( this is because incoming directory do not have read permission >) This is a special feature of agate ;-( > Thanks > Alok Kumar Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"