" Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Darxus wrote: | | > I felt like checking. Oops. When I reinstalled & tried to restore it, I | > found out that gzip can't seek to the end of the file (dies around 2gb?). | | You can force gzip to handle it as a stream. Try something like: | | cat tarfile.tgz | gunzip -c | tar xvf - | | The "-c" tells gunzip to pipe it to stdout, and the "xvf -" tells tar | to verbosely extract the file coming into stdin. If I understand your | problem correctly, this should work.
It's even simpler: gzip -d -c tarfile.tgz |tar xvf - or, if you're using GNU Tar, and you are under Debian): tar xzvf tarfile.tgz Gary
