To see the error of your ways, run the tar again, just exactly as you
did. Now press control-d. If you don't give tar the -f option ir tries
to read from stdin, and it will wait forever for you to type something.
I can't promise you what you downloaded is any good, but a missing -f is
the only way I know to make tar hang.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, David Krings wrote:
> Hi !
>
> Some time ago I downloaded SO 5.1 and tried to unpack it, after
this
> didn't work i guessed it got broken while resuming the download. So i
went
> through downloading again, and this time i did it directly under Linux.
The
> result is the same. The strange thing is, that the KDE program arc says
it
> is an unknown tar-archive. So I used the prompt to do it by hand with
tar.
> tar then starts and does basically nothing, no unpacking, no error
message,
> no activity at all. I redirected the output to a file (as it was
multiple
> times explained on this list here) and after waiting about ten minutes
i
> cancled tar. Neither on the screen nor in the file was anything that
could
> give me a hint of what it would be.
>
> The idea to ask StarDivision directly would be calling them,
basically no
> problem, but StarDivison charges about 3$ / min for calling the
customer
> support here in germany, so i just try it here before i am broke. I
then
> rather would buy it in the fancy box.....
>
> Does anyone has downloaded and installed SO 5.1 (german
version) ? Would
> it be a good idea to try out a different ftp server ?
>
> I got it from the sunsite of the RWTH Aachen in germany.
>
> My system is a genuine RedHat 5.2
> kernel 2.0.36
> x running, with KDE
>
>
> Thanx for any help or hint.
>
> Greez
>
> Dave
>
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