It sounds to me like you FTP'd the file in ASCII mode rather than IMAGE
(binary) mode! You have a corrupted tar file.
At 08:46 AM 10/5/98 -0500, Bordelon wrote:
>I am fairly new to the Unix (esp. Linux) world. I am trying to set up a
small Linux server for my client in an effort to demonstrate its
capabilities as a web server. Unfortunately, I am having troubles
installing the JDK. It is probably an error between the chair and desk,
but if anyone can help me out, please reply. Here are the steps I took:
>
>1. On my Windows Machine (I know, I know), I downloaded the glibc version
of 1.1.6 from the blackdown web site
>2. Then I FTPed the file over to the Linux box.
>3. Finally, I ran "tar xzvf jdk1_1_6-v2-glibc_tar.gz"
>
>It unpacks a bunch of header files (*.h) under the directory:
./jdk1.1.6/include
>Than it returns the message "tar:skipping to next file header"
>
>That's it.
>
>I would really appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks,
>Michael Bordelon
>
>Attachment Converted: "P:\USR\MEMO\EMAIL\Problemi.htm"
>
