On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 23:39:06 -0400
Steve Kinney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Seems legit except 'extract' has been chewing on the file for 45 minutes
> now without spitting out any useful bits that I can see, while 'top'
> indicates 99% of CPU cycles dedicated to the task. It's kind of
> reassuring that 'extract' reports files in "GNU tar format" were found.
> But @126 MB I would expect /most/ archive files of this size to unpack
> in way less than a minute here.
>
> amidoinitrite?
not sure about extract, I used bzip2 and tar -xf
IIRC it takes a couple of minutes to unpack in my rather old machine.
Maybe your disk is almost full?
> Has anybody got a verifiably useful copy?
>
> :o)
>
>
