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From: jpm@logixwi.uucp (Jan-Piet Mens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.155600.10349@logixwi.uucp>
Date: 10 Jun 91 15:56:00 GMT
References: <11711@mirsa.inria.fr>
Organization: Logix GmbH, Wiesbaden, W-Germany
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gilette@trinidad.inria.fr (Serge Gilette) writes:


>  I ftp archives from a site and i need to uncompress them,
>for they are tar file. I tryed to do tar -xf file.tar.Z
>but it gives me tar: directory checksum error (0 != -57),
>and if i use the -i option which is suppose to suppress
>such errors, it gives me a fulle page of errors !
>What shall i do ?

	Try either
		$ zcat file.tar.Z | tar xvf -
	or
		$ uncompress file.tar.Z
		$ tar xvf file.tar


Bonne chance!
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