Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!spt1 From: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (Stephen Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: problems with !extract Message-ID: <7619@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 16 May 91 21:05:46 GMT References: <1578@mike.ukc.ac.uk> Reply-To: spt1@ukc.ac.uk (Stephen Thomas) Distribution: comp Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 26 In article <1578@mike.ukc.ac.uk> mre@ukc.ac.uk (M.R.Ellis) writes: >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. This sounds like a problem I've been having. You could drop the parts into !Extract OK, but when you tried to actually DO the extraction, there would be a bit of activity, then all would go quiet until I pressed Escape, whereupon an error box appeared with the message above. The funny thing is, if I tried it again immediately after (loading the parts, everything), *without changing anything*, everything worked OK. Since it uses Graham Toal's tar program, I thought that maybe it was something to do with tar$scrap not being defined. I don't know. As a matter of interest, I have a rather elderly A440. Stephen -- | "You've been having a nightmare. | Stephen Thomas -------------------------| | And it's not over yet." | Email: spt1@ukc.ac.uk; Smail: Computing | | -- Roger Waters, "The Pros and | Lab, University of Kent, CT2 7NZ, UK; | | Cons of Hitchhiking" | Tel: +44 (0)227 764000 x 3824 |