tar archive (was: Re: KUML)

[holle at almaden.ibm.com]

Sebastien:

did you transfer the tar file using command line ftp ? If so, did you switch
into "binary" mode before the transfer ? Do a "file kuml-19991019.tgz" and see
what it tells you. If it says something like "
gzipped ... " then it should be gzipped, but if it does not, it means your
archive is toast.
If you downloaded it with netscape, it is probably already ungzipped and the
"file ..." will yield a "tar archive ....". In that case please omit the "z"
from the switches for tar (i.e. : xvf) to only unpack, but not uncompress the
file. You might also rename the file and omit the ending ".gz" .
If you get told something like "data" or "empty" from the "file ..." command you
obviously have a "broken" archive there. Please retreive again.

- Holger

Jukka Vuokko <jvuokko at cs.Helsinki.FI> on 25/10/99 07:01:59

Please respond to kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de

To:   kdevelop at barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de
cc:
Subject:  Re: KUML




On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 09:30:43AM +0200, Sebastien BROCHET wrote:
>
> My try with kuml-19991019.tgz:
>
> >tar -zxvf kuml-19991019.tgz
> tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive
> tar: Skipping to next file header
>
> gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--format violated
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>
> Has anybody successed in untarring it ?
> Which version 19991019 ? 19991020 ?

I did not have any problems with 19991020. I cannot check the version
of gunzip right now but that was gunzip that comes with latest Red Hat
(6.1).



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Jukka Vuokko                                          http://iki.fi/jvuokko/