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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: getting freebsd
Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:30:22 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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mcampbel@erols.com (M. Campbell or Lee Cremeans ) wrote:

> >I use bin xfer mode for ftp on  a sun Unix machine..
> >After this, I use cat"sbin.?? |tar tvf - " to test the download and it 
> >always fail.  
> 
> The files are gzipped.  Usr tar -xzvf instead.

Since he's mentioning a Sun, GNU tar is probably not available.  So
the stock generic Unix way is:

	cat sbin.?? | gzip -dc | tar tvf -

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)