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From: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: GNU gcc & tar under Esix
Keywords: Help!!  can't extract the files from .tar.Z
Message-ID: <4550@thebes.Thalatta.COM>
Date: 16 Jun 90 19:33:52 GMT
References: <183@hacker.UUCP>
Reply-To: campbell@Thalatta.COM (Bill Campbell)
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
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In article <183@hacker.UUCP> root@hacker.UUCP (Admin) writes:
:I had this problem under Bell Tech Unix as well, and it's driving me nuts.
:I consistently get a directory checksum error on some of the GNU products
:(at least that's the only place where I've noticed it).  I'm interested in
:hearing from anyone who has either had the same problem, or has done this
:successfully or (preferably) both.  I can reproduce the problem with:
:
:cat tar-1.08.tar.Z | uncompress | tar tvf -
:
:I'd appreciate any help at all. Please!!! I'm running out of options. -- SMY
:
:P.S.  On an unrelated topic, does anyone know how to retreive a single file 
:      from the distrobution media on Esix?  Do I use cpio or do I mount it...?
:      I have it on 5 1/4.  Thanks again.

I have seen this problem on some systems, notably the Tandy
6000.  The only solution I have found is to uncompress the file
then tar from the uncompressed file:

	zcat filetar > tmp; tar -xvf tmp; rm tmp

works nicely.

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