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Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 09:06:43 +0200
To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za>
From: "Thomas L. Pedersen" <tlp@dfh.dk>
Subject: Re: Uncompresing a Linux archive
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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The original file is a bourne script but the extraction command is:

EXTRACTCMD="dd bs=10240 skip=1 if=${InstallPWD}/ws31gr 2>/dev/null |
uncompress | tar -xf -"

where as you can see the tar archive is copied from the installation file
and then uncompressed and untared. However it produces error message

-Thomas

At 17:28 30-04-98 +0200, you wrote:
>Thomas L. Pedersen wrote:
>>
>> Have have a Linix RedHat compressed and tarred archive which I want to
>> uncompress and untar on a FreeBSD 2.2.5 system. However I get the error
>> "file format incorret" when I try tar -xvzf filename
>
>When you say a "compressed and tarred archive", what format do you mean?  Is
>it a *.tar.gz or *.tgz or *.tar.Z, or is it maybe a RedHat package (*.rpm)
>file?
>
>If the latter, then you need to install rpm on FreeBSD - it's in the ports.
>
>It might also simply be that the file became corrupted somehow.
>
>-- V
>
>Johann Visagie | Email: wjv@CityIP.co.za | Tel: +27 21 419-7878
>
>

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