From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 4 17:19:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84AE337B401 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 17:19:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts7.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6527543EC2 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 17:19:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phillip@3bags.com) Received: from [192.168.1.11] ([65.95.75.217]) by tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030105011908.VSDU8378.tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.1.11]> for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 20:19:08 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 20:30:52 -0500 Subject: Re: help! Problems with TAR archives? From: Phillip Smith To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Would it be possible to use a script to achieve the same outcome? I've trie= d re-uploading/downlaoding the files in multiple modes, to no avail. Also, I ftp'd these files TO a Windows box FROM my BSD box, so I believe that the default mode for that would be binary? Are there any other reasons this may have happened? Any way to test? p. on 1/4/03 6:50 PM, Stephen Hovey at shovey@buffnet.net wrote: >=20 > windows ftp defaults to ascii more, not binary, so its adds a \r to each > \n - you might save your tar files if you upload ascii to get them > stripped out again. >=20 > On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> Hi, >>=20 >> Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? >>=20 >> freedom# tar -xf www.tar >> tar: Skipping to next file header... >> tar: Unknown file type '' for >> =97=E7=D3=EE=EF=E68=CB=9F=DC=AB=BB=DF[+=EE=AFn=B7=D1_}=FB=8F=86=ED=D2M=C22=C5=BE=F0=90=B1=E7=D5V=B42=AC=A38(Uvj=DBu=BE=DF=D7=A9=A6=85=E4, extracted as >> normal file >> tar: Skipping to next file header... >>=20 >>=20 >> I don't understand what's happened to this archive (and serveral others = that >> represent my entire system backup)? I'm having the same problem with a w= hole >> set of archives that I ftp to a remote Windows machine... the ones I sto= red >> on my other FreeBSD machine are fine. Did something happen during the >> transfer? >>=20 >> Also, for each archive, the first few items are extracted properly and t= hen >> there all this junk... any thought _really_ appreciated. If these are >> corrupt, I've lost a pile of data. >>=20 >> Many thanks in advance, >>=20 >> phillip. >>=20 >>=20 >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >>=20 >=20 >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message