Wed, 17 May 2000 16:30:04
I have downloaded eighteen tar.gz files from various sites...some of
them work without complaint...six of them will not gunzip..
The Archiver tool claims they are of an unknown format...
zcat and midnight commander will not open them...I have tried to open
them with tar -zxvf (crummy file) tar.gz....no soap.
keep in mind that I am able to do other files ok, so my procedures
should be adequate,..?.. I downloaded A thirty meg book "Grokking the
GIMP", it took three hours with my antique phone line hookup,, and the
file gave the error below...this file is read by other people so I
cannot believe all these files are bad...
what could I do to recover this file ? can I change some
coding with a hex editor or something and make them decode? take a
look at the file fragment below I obtained, using the tar test (first
line below).
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[olly@localhost Lintech]$ tar -tf Grokking-the-GIMP-v1_0_tar.gz
Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/
Grokking-the-GIMP-v1.0/Grokking_the_GIMP.html
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Archive contains `"N U\240\301P\226\203\t\330\026Y"' where
numeric off_t value expected
tar: Archive contains `"\362\037`\261\b\264\341\216D\334\023&"' where
numeric time_t
value expected
\022\304\001\025\230[\355\330\245\260\260\313v\266\013_\n\013\242\331I/\274\342F\026\002\024t$\355!U\017.\346z\262g{\332EcrZJ&@\221\321g}\332\347}\342\247}B_\237\345g\177\342'\364\251\303\304\370\347\200\022\350\177\322\b\215\004h\236\361\247\221M\314\202\026\350\203\022\350\304
tar: Skipping to next file header
\253\013\273q\326\272\257\353\272\261k\273\221\005n\220{\273\273\213X\257Fo\274\013\274Mgl\234;g\301\333^\201
tar: Skipping to next file header
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
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can someone offer a theory? anyone? comeon Paul you have an answer
don't you? <grin>.
thank you kindly for your efforts
Olly P
Biloxi
Mississippi
