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- From: mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu (David Mathog)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Q: .tar.Z files that won't unpack under VMS
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 11:19 PST
- Organization: Division of Biolgy, CALTECH
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- Message-ID: <23NOV199211193139@seqvax.caltech.edu>
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- News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41
-
- I frequently run into .tar.Z files that were put together on Sparcs that will
- not unpack and untar correctly under VMS. They go through lzdcmp without
- posting any error mesages, but then blow up in tar. Either I'm throwing the
- wrong switches or there is some bug/incompatibility in my copy of lzdcmp or
- tar.
-
- If you can get the following test file unpacked and untarred on your system
- please let me know how you did it!
-
- The test file:
-
- FTP site: cs.arizona.edu
- directory: agrep
- file: agrep-2.04.tar.Z (only 62kbytes)
-
- Transfer this to your system (binary) and do:
-
- $ lzdcmp -x 2 agrep.tarz agrep.tar
- $ tar extract/archive=agrep.tar
-
- On my system tar belches out the following before going belly up:
-
- Created directory $DATA1:[USERS.MATHOG.AGREP-2_04]
- Records in file $DATA1:[USERS.MATHOG.AGREP-2_04]ASEARCH.C;1 longer than 8192
- bytes have been wrapped
- Created $DATA1:[USERS.MATHOG.AGREP-2_04]ASEARCH.C;1 (2 records)
- Bad header record, dumped in file SYS$SCRATCH:HEADER.TAR
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- David Mathog
- mathog@seqvax.caltech.edu
- Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech
-