Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:49:28 -0700 (MST) From: "David A. Richards" <dave@ns1.richcon.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: tar extraction shooting itself in foot Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990212104258.16184A-100000@ns1.richcon.com>
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Hi, I've been using freebsd for 4 years. Today I tried to unpack a large tar file I made last night. It's about 200MB in size. tar can only extract about 500 kb of it though.... This is what I get: ============================================= % tar -xvf var.tar (uncompresses about 40 files) tar: Skipping to next file header... % The problem is it only extracts about 1% of all the files in the archive, then gives up when it says "Skipping to next file header...". Anyone know what's going on with tar? I tried ftp'ing the file to an NT system with Winzip and it extracted all the files in the archive okay... but I don't get to keep permissions that way. Sincerely, ======================================================== David A Richards, CNE, Network Consultant Denver CO Richards Consulting LANs WANs Internet Novell NT Web: http://www.richcon.com E-Mail: mailto:dave@richcon.com Phone: 303.639.5657 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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