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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!caen!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit 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 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <veit.718539383@du9ds3> References: < <1992Oct7.075020.13103@burns.jpl.nasa.gov> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de 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 + -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"