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From: bad@atrain.sw.stratus.com (Bruce Dumes)
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Subject: Re: TAR
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Date: 1 Nov 90 20:44:19 GMT
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In article <6187@m2c.M2C.ORG> hautala@odin.m2c.org () writes:
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>
>I am trying to extract a tar file, and it seems no matter what I do, I get
>this error "checksum error in directory file, possible name:" and then a
>bunch of garbage!!!
>
>what gives???  what is the correct command to extract all the files from a
>tar file in my directory????
>
>thanx in advance

I've seen this when someone was trying to tar a compressed file.  Later
they said something like, "Ohhhh, that's what that ".Z" meant!!"

By the way, tar xvf <filename> should work; you might need to specify 
the blocking factor.

Bruce


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