Hi
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:05:56PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:I'm getting errors trying to gunzip some files of xray diffration data.
I'm unzipping on a Linux box. The data was gziped on an SGI IRIX, stored on a Novel server,
moved over to a Windows box and eventually to my Linux box.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The most common destruction of gzip files is ftp in ASCII mode onto the MS-Windows box. If this is the problem then there is no way that I know of to fix it. Check that the size of the file is the same under Linux as it was on the original SGI box.
Yeah in most cases its an ASCII instead of bin prob but I dont think so here. If I do this:
gunzip -c admin.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
I get a bin directory and one of my scripts recovered (though mangled a lot) and then the error:
tar: skipping to next header
tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
invalid compressed data--format violatedThats why I'm wondering if it's an error because I used an IRIX gzip and trying to unzip with gunzip on a TiPowerBook under Debian.
Mike -- Michael Lake Chemistry, Materials & Forensic Science, UTS Ph: 9514 1725 Fx: 9514 1460 [pls ignore idiot lawyer's msg below]
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