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From: kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: tar & ulimit are pissing me off.
Keywords: tar, ulimit, gcc archive
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Date: 12 Mar 90 21:58:50 GMT
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In article <183@hacker.UUCP> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
> ulimit 20000
> cat gcc-1.36.tar.Z.*[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] > gcc-1.36.tar.Z
> uncompress gcc-1.36.tar
> tar xf gcc-1.36.tar
>
>At this point I get, "tar: directory checksum error" 
>which has the effect of depriving me of some fairly vital files. 
>
>or both of these problems.  Is there is way to permanently set ULIMIT?  Is this

You can set ULIMIT higher in your configuration files and rebuild the
kernel, but even better, would be to link "zcat" to "compress"
(uncompress is also a link to compress, it just checks the command line
to see what to do) and then "zcat gcc-1.36.tar | tar xvf -"

But this won't cure the fact that you have a checksum error in your
tar file.

kaleb@mars.jpl.nasa.gov            Jet Propeller Labs
Kaleb Keithley

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