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From: rich@bvax.UUCP (Rich Chahley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: extracting tar.Z BBS files
Message-ID: <249@bvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 10:17:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: bvax.249
Posted: Fri Aug  7 10:17:39 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 10:30:28 EDT
Organization: Bell Canada, Toronto, CANADA
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Keywords: get tar: checksumdirectory checksum error


I'm having trouble extracting ...tar.Z files off of The CONSULTANTS' EXCHANGE
(uucp: conexch 714-842-5851 login: nuucp).  I can successfully download files
such as "emacs38.tar.Z" but cannot extract the files from the "tar" format.

This is what happens....

To decompress, I use ---> compress -d emacs38.tar.Z
  resulting file is ----> emacs38.tar

To extract, I use ------> tar xvf emacs38.tar.Z
  resulting messages are.... tar: blocksize=20        (normal message)
                        .... tar: directory checksum error

This problem has consistently happened on all ...tar.Z files downloaded from
this bulletin board.  I am running a IBM PC-AT with SCO XENIX 2.2.1.

Has anyone experienced similar problems?
Is there something that I'm doing wrong? 
   The compress program I am using is Ver 4.0 (85/07/30) BITS=16

I would appreciate any help (and I'm desperate to start tying these programs).

Thanks in advance....
Richard Chahley

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