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Re: Unable to Un-tar Documentation
- To: Gregory Pietsch <greg at babel dot lz dot att dot com>
- Subject: Re: Unable to Un-tar Documentation
- From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 17:43:39 -0800
- CC: Kenneth Axelson <kenneth dot axelson at tic dot toshiba dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Organization: VERITAS Software
- References: <sa9e449e.012@tichou3> <3A9E9A77.2E15D9B3@babel.lz.att.com>
Gregory Pietsch wrote:
>
> Here's a possible reason: The file is a tar.gz file in disguise. Rename it to cygwin-docs.tar.gz and see if it decompresses and untars.
>
If true, your tar command will need the 'z' option:
tar xzf tar_file
or alternately you can:
zcat tar_file | tar xf -
> > Hi,
> > I downloaded cygwin-docs_tar.tar from www.cygwin.com and have been unable to untar it. When I try, tar gives me a message "tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive"
> >
> > Do you have any help for me?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Ken Axelson
> >
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