Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!mike.ukc.ac.uk!mre From: mre@ukc.ac.uk (M.R.Ellis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: problems with !extract Message-ID: <1578@mike.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 16 May 91 20:47:55 GMT References: Reply-To: mre@ukc.ac.uk (M.R.Ellis) Distribution: comp Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 22 In article Oliver Flimm > perhaps someone can help me with !extract. Everytime I try to drag a prog > on the !extract-window, soon a message like `unexpected error: end of file` > appears. I already tried to eliminate spaces or add or remove a newline, but > till now I haven`t solved the problem. Well...I've had similar problems. I have had messages similar to (sorry, I can't remember exactly) 'Tar error 2...unexpected error: end of file' and other equally unhelpful messages (what is Tar error 2????). I know a few people who do have !Extract working successfully, but they all have hard discs fitted to A300 or A400 series machines....my floppy based A3000 just gives up every time. In the short term, I have taken to using !Edit to modify the 'extract' files and have then passed them to a standard version of Sparkplug (2). This seems to work, but has the annoying side effect of leaving me with a directory of data files and a single data file containing a list of *SETTYPEs. Never mind. C'est la vie. etc... Michael Ellis, Host Mike at University of Kent, Canterbury (ukc)