On occasion, tar files I download have an extra "tar" appended to their extension. I am not certain why. Nevertheless, when this happens, you may see filenames like:

        *.tar.gz.tar

Rename it to:

        *.tar.gz

Ditto for *.tgz.tar. I've not ever seen *.tar.tar; it's likely you've made a typo. Uncompressed tar files put out for download are rare.

Ben

David Hill wrote:

I realize this is hardly a FOP problem, but opening the gift-wrapping has this 
newbie
stymied. I found the following message and reply in the archive, which 
describes my
problem exactly, but no particular solution is offered.  Can someone enlighten 
me?

Problem: I downloaded the latest FOP binary download 
(fop-0.20.5rc3a-bin.tar.tar) from the
distribution site http://xml.apache.org/fop/download.htm. I dunno what a tar 
file is, but
WinZip seems to think it can handle it, so I gather its a compressed 
distribution format.
Winzip returns the error message "Error reading header after processing 0 
entries".  Same
result with Winzip current 8.5 release and also their beta 9.0.

So how does one untar a tar?  Is there a preferred tool?  Or is the file 
damaged?

David Hill, Camberley Systems, Needham MA


Reply by > J.Pietschmann

Sounds like your untar utility is confused. I remember that *very*
old tars have incompatiblities with more modern tars, in particular
GNU tar, which may result in this error message. Another possiblity
is that it either missed uncompressing, or that uncompressing failed
and the error message was dropped somehow.
In either case, you can try with another toolset, or at least identify
the toolset you are using.


---original message---

Subject:  Re: Newbie question about FOP
Date:     2003-04-29 20:24:30
Pabolu, Adinarayana (MED, GEMS-IT) wrote:

I downloaded FOP( http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/fop-0.20.5rc2-bin.tar.gz from http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/. It is giving error " Error reading header after processing 0 entries".



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