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From: rvp@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Rey Paulo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: tar
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.005655.27185@csc.canberra.edu.au>
Date: 12 Jun 91 00:56:55 GMT
References: <11711@mirsa.inria.fr>
Sender: Rey V. Paulo
Organization: University of Canberra
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In article <11711@mirsa.inria.fr> 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 ?
>
Do this:

zcat file.tar.Z | tar -xvf -

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