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- 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>
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- 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
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