RE: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-10 Thread Phillip Smith
> -Original Message- [snip] > > Perhaps I'll try one of these third-party programs? Or > switch to ??? > > at the office for email? > > mutt. (chuckle) That's what I use on the BSD box, I didn't think it was available for MS? > > I'm using TAR on the FreeBSD side, not the Microsoft sid

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Thursday, 9 January 2003 at 10:22:48 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: >> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey >> >> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] >> >>> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 >>

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 9 January 2003 at 12:08:29 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: > On January 9, 2003 10:23 AM, Phillip Smith wrote: >>> What does tar t tell you on the FreeBSD side? >> >> tar: Hmm, this doesn't look like a tar archive. >> tar: Skipping to next file header... >> tar: only read 521 bytes from a

RE: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-09 Thread Phillip Smith
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of > Phillip Smith > Sent: January 9, 2003 10:23 AM > To: 'Greg 'groggy' Lehey' > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: help! Problems with TAR archives

RE: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-09 Thread Phillip Smith
> -Original Message- > From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 > > Incorrect wrapping in quoted text. Argh! I thought I had fixed that... I've set t

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-06 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Incorrect wrapping in quoted text. On Monday, 6 January 2003 at 8:45:25 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: > >> On Saturday, 4 January 2003 at 20:30:52 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: >>>

RE: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-06 Thread Phillip Smith
> On Saturday, 4 January 2003 at 20:30:52 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: > > on 1/4/03 6:50 PM, Stephen Hovey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote: > >>> Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? > >>> > >>> freedom# tar -xf www.tar > >>> tar: Skipping

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-05 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 4 January 2003 at 20:30:52 -0500, Phillip Smith wrote: > on 1/4/03 6:50 PM, Stephen Hovey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote: >>> Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? >>> >>> freedom# tar -xf www.tar >>> tar: Skipping to next file he

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-04 Thread Phillip Smith
Would it be possible to use a script to achieve the same outcome? I've tried re-uploading/downlaoding the files in multiple modes, to no avail. Also, I ftp'd these files TO a Windows box FROM my BSD box, so I believe that the default mode for that would be binary? Are there any other reasons this

Re: help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-04 Thread Stephen Hovey
windows ftp defaults to ascii more, not binary, so its adds a \r to each \n - you might save your tar files if you upload ascii to get them stripped out again. On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Phillip Smith wrote: > > Hi, > > Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? > > freedom# tar -xf www.ta

help! Problems with TAR archives?

2003-01-04 Thread Phillip Smith
Hi, Wondering what (if anything) can be done about this? freedom# tar -xf www.tar tar: Skipping to next file header... tar: Unknown file type '' for —çÓîïæ8˟ܫ»ß[+î¯n·Ñ_}û†íÒMÂ2žð±çÕV´2¬£8(UvjÛu¾ßש¦…ä, extracted as normal file tar: Skipping to next file header... I don't understand what's