Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!nntp-read!jc From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James Cameron) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: tar Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 91 14:57:27 GMT References: <11711@mirsa.inria.fr> Sender: news@bu.edu Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????' Lines: 31 In-reply-to: gilette@trinidad.inria.fr's message of 10 Jun 91 13:22:43 GMT >>>>> On 10 Jun 91 13:22:43 GMT, gilette@trinidad.inria.fr (Serge Gilette) said: Serge> I ftp archives from a site and i need to uncompress them, Serge> for they are tar file. I tryed to do tar -xf file.tar.Z Serge> but it gives me tar: directory checksum error (0 != -57), Serge> and if i use the -i option which is suppose to suppress Serge> such errors, it gives me a fulle page of errors ! Serge> What shall i do ? Serge> gilette@trinidad.inria.fr | University of Nice, Cote d'azur, France Try this: % tar xfv filename.tar That should do it. jc -- -- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass (617) 353-2879 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "But to risk we must, for the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. For the man or woman who risks nothing, has nothing, does nothing, is nothing." (Quote from the eulogy for the late Christa McAuliffe.)