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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Problem with tar and XFree86 binary file
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:16:23 GMT
Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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Message-ID: <veit.718539383@du9ds3>
References: < <1992Oct7.075020.13103@burns.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In <1992Oct7.075020.13103@burns.jpl.nasa.gov> hand@spc9.jpl.nasa.gov (Kolin Hand) writes:

>Greeetings.

>I am having a problem with the tar distributed with 386BSD.
>When trying to extract the XFree86 "core-bin-1.1.tar" file,
>I get a message after extracting  "xclipboard" saying:

>   "tar:  Skipping to next file header..."

>Immediately after this, tar exits with no more files
>extracted.  Am I missing something?  What does this mean?
>Do I have a corrupt file?

Yes.

>The file-size is 17786882 (uncompressed).

>Thanks for any help.

>Kolin

>+===========================================================================+
>+  "Guilt Trip:  The nuclear weapon of relationships."  -- K. Hand          +
>+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>+  Kolin E. Hand                              hand@spc7.jpl.nasa.gov        +
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